...One holding a commission. 10. Punctilious discrimination. LXXIIL THE FIRST CLINGS TO THE SECOND. " THOU wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes...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 thine...

...Norman age in his fragment upon Yardley Oak, which was supposed to have existed before the Normans : " 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...

...with the counties of Northampton. and Huntingdon as her dower." The poet also celebrates it in verse : Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball Which babes...the thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might hnve purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs...

...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 isy, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing clovm...

...elements of the picture — only the hand of a master could make the composition what it is : — " Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Characteristics of the Poetry of Oowper. 595 Seeking her food, with ease might have purloined The auburn...

...which reminds us that Cowper, if the poetical child of Dryden, was the poetical sire of Wordsworth. ' Thou wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes...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 thine...

...if the poetical child of Dryden, was the poetical sire of Wordsworth: — " Thou wast a bauble ouce; 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 thine...

...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...

...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after tasto 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...

...antiquated and vulgar phrases. The following are about the best lines which it contains. " Thou wast n bauble once ; a cup and ball, Which babes might play with ; and the thievistt jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thec, swallowing...