| James Grigor - 1841 - 500 páginas
...appropriate address from Cowper, who bad a keen sense of the beautiful in such objects : — "Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; ami the thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee,... | |
| Mary Roberts - 1843 - 322 páginas
...me still is the wild daisied green, Where thy branches are waving, my own beechen-trec. " Thou wert a. bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
| William Cowper - 1843 - 406 páginas
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. But fate thy growth... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 790 páginas
...the use of antiquated and vulgar phrases. The following are about the best lines which it contains. " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 794 páginas
...the use of antiquated and vulgar phrases. The following are about the best lines which it contains. " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievish joy Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin' d The auburn nut that held ihee, swallowing down... | |
| 1900 - 676 páginas
...aristocratic kinsmen " in the metropolis, thereby getting to the knowledge of the poet. But all this is mere guesswork, and, at any rate, casual acquaintance...fine structure, and contained many monuments of the Yelvertons. It was restored in a loving spirit by the late Marquess of Northampton, and the old vicarage... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 páginas
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscribed, as to a refuge, fled. Thou wast a bauble once; a cup and ball, Which babes...thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And... | |
| John Britton - 1849 - 394 páginas
...in which, descanting on its birth, growth, maturity, and decay, he says: — " It was once a bauble; a cup and ball Which babes might play with; and the...jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee ; swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude of boughs, And all thy... | |
| John Britton - 1849 - 494 páginas
...which, descanting on its birth, growth, maturity, and decay, he says : — " It was once a bauble ; a cup and ball Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with case might have purloined The auburn nut that held thee ; swallowing down Thy yet close folded latitude... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 páginas
...more decays." The yew, however, has long been supposed to exceed the oak in longevity. " Thou wert a bauble once— a cup and ball, Which babes might play with; and the thievish jay. Cowper, always exquisitely tended aud natural, writes a beautiful little biography Thy Jet Ci08c.folded... | |
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