 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pagina’s
...lost ; 75 While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion...the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, 80 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets,... | |
 | William Hone - 1841 - 894 pagina’s
...merry descanta on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; rosss for the cheeks. And lilies for the brows of faded...age. Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'«! of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews. Sermons,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pagina’s
...lost ; 75 While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion...the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, 60 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest ed her order : gently flows The deep-dyed Brenta,...stream, and glassed within it glows. * Their mag plundered of their sweets ; Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest th this lost love of mine, To lead but one measure,...cup of wine ! There be maidens in Scotland, more l Tooth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald. Нектон, earth, and ocean, plundered of their... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pagina’s
...lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion...toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews. Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pagina’s
...wanders, lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pagina’s
...wanders lost. While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion...age. Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pagina’s
...a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheekv And lilies for the brows of faded age; Teeth for the...bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plunder'd of their swceu Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and rity-feasts, and favourite airs, Etherial journeys,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pagina’s
...lost ; 75 While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion,...the cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age, 80 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plunder'd of their sweets,... | |
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Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But... 
