 No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake.  The Task: A Poem. In Six Books - Σελίδα 103των William Cowper - 1810 - 193 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 σελίδες
...Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults...needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depi&ed flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom; buds, and leaves, and... | |
 | 1802 - 302 σελίδες
...know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd, pert proficient in the art 1^5 Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the...circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle j)Hes its busy task, • 150 The pattern grows, the wetirdepifted flower, Wrought patiently into the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 σελίδες
...Of long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powdered pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...needle plies its busy task; The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 σελίδες
...Of long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powdered pert proficient in the art . : Of sounding an alarm...assaults these doors Till the street rings; no stationary streds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake:... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 σελίδες
...stop short before these gates; NM powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assanlts these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary...themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies it's busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 σελίδες
...long uninterrupted evening know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gatesj No powder'd pen, ' Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear ; ' Cuuirli their own knell, while heedless of the sound The silent circle fan themselves, and quake ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 384 σελίδες
...Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies it's busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 σελίδες
...Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds. The silent circle fan themselves, and quake: But here the needle plies it's busy task, 150 The pattern... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 σελίδες
...uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient-in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors...needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 σελίδες
...Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gate* ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies it's busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted fiow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn,... | |
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