 Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw ; To pitch the ball into the grounded...  Poems - Page 409by William Cowper - 1820 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1853 - 570 pages
...Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once,...grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dext'rous pat" to say nothing of the big boy's profligate skill in coachmanship, or driving chaise, In bilking tavern... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 538 pages
...Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once,...grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dext'rous pat" to say nothing of the big boy's profligate skill in coachmanship, or driving chaise, In bilking tavern... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...destroy'd , The little ones, unbotton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; 305 As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky...dext'rous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once excites • 310 Such recollection of our own delights, That, viewing it, we seem almost t' obtain Our innocent... | |
 | 1853 - 614 pages
...mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet deel roy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing oar games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once,...grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dext'rous pat" to say nothing of the big boy's profligate skill in coachmanship, or driving chaise, VOL, XXVHL NO.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 800 pages
...destroy'd , The little ones, unbotton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; 305 As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky...dext'rous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once excites 310 Such recollection of our own delights, That, viewing it, we seem almost t' obtain Our innocent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 522 pages
...yet deftroy'd; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very fpot ; As happy as we once to kneel and draw The chalky ring,...into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat ; The pleafing fpectacle at once excites Such recollection of our own delights, That,... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1853 - 120 pages
...4. * These sentences rmy be completed bj •upplying " htn is," or some similar eipression. Playing our games, and on the very spot, As happy as we once,...draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw, To j)itch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat; 8 The pleasing spectacle... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 544 pages
...Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd : The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot, As happy as we once to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle-down at taw ; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dextrous... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy 'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once,...into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once excites sio Such recollection of our own delights, That,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...Though mangled, hack'd and hew'd, not yet destroy'd; The little ones unbutton' d, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot, As happy as we once,...into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once excites Such recollection of our own delights, That... | |
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