 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 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...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 - 1850 - 516 pagina’s
...wanders lost ; While &e\ds of pleasantry amuse us there With merf y descants on a nations woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion...toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plundered bf their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite... | |
 | Frederick Knight Hunt - 1850 - 326 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...for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded ago ; Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their sweets,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pagina’s
...lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The reet ay, when contentious Charles renounced a throne, To...unknown, What from his soul the parting tribute drew ? plundered of their sweete J Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - 1851 - 398 pagina’s
...— that of Dryden, Pope, and Swift — are admirably huddled together in the lines of Cowper : — " Roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of...ringlets for the bald ; Heaven, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets ; Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pagina’s
...merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest ap¡-'ars a wilderness of strange 3ut gay confusion ; rosos for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, rîeaven, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets Vectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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...bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, « 2 Ethereal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 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...for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded ago, 80 Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of their... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 522 pagina’s
...merry defcants on a nation's woes. The reft appears a wildernefs of ftrange But gay confufion ; rofes for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for .the toothlefs, ringlets for the bald, Nectareous eflences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feafts, and... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 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, . go 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... 
