... expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths,... Family Records: Or, The Two Sisters - Seite 93von Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Cowper - 1800 - 438 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and .marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 Seiten
...or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, TOL< II. I Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, or the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks, Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with mn'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 Seiten
...ashes, or the fall of stocks, ' • I ~< Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet • , . . • .1 With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks, Fast as the periods from bis fluent quill, Or chargM with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks...swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But oh the important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 Seiten
...or joy. '" Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, • . - Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet '. With tears, that trickled down the writer's...absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally- affect - •'. \l- V-" His horse and hirn, unconscious of them all. ' 1. But oh the important budget ! ushered... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, marriages, epistles or, A fortune asks, and asks no mote. Av'rice, whatever shape it bears, Must still be cou qiii.ll, Or charg'd with am'rotis fighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect, His... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the full of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks, Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am,'rous sighs of absent swains, Or Nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 384 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from bis fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect... | |
| William Cowper - 1814 - 496 Seiten
...whether grief or joy. Honses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his flnent qnill, Or charg'd with am'rons sighs of absent swaius, Or nymphs respousive, eqnally affect... | |
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