 | William Cowper - 1835 - Страниц: 448
...extract the following passages, as expressive of the vigour and inspiration of true poetic genius. Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play withj and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - Страниц: 436
...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 Claudius Loudon - 1838 - Страниц: 794
...Chase, Mundy's Necdwood Forest, and Carrington's Dartmoor. For the Yardley Oak, see p. 1764. " Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play...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... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 588
...made these men stare long enough. Come away ! THE THOU wast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, Whicli babes might play with ; and the thievish jay, Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held ihee, swallowing down, Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs,... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 472
...spreading fair, To muse on what has been,—what now is there \ THE OAR'S PROGRESS/ ANNE R— THOU aast a bauble once ; a cup and ball, "Which babes might play with; aud the thievish jay/ The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Seekiug her food, with ease might... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1838 - Страниц: 796
...Chtue, Mundy's Needwood Forest, and Carrington s Dartmoor. For the Yardley Oak, see p. 1764. " Thou wert a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play with j and the thievish jay Seeking her food, with ease might have purloin'd The auburn nut that held thce,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - Страниц: 554
...gloomy, into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proseribed, 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... | |
 | 1840 - Страниц: 432
...what true poet-power he gives shape to the reflections awakened by the giant of the forest : — " 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - Страниц: 358
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - Страниц: 324
...gloom}', into gloom Of thickest shades, like Adam after taste Of fruit proscrib'd, 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,... | |
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The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs And all thine embryo vastness at a gulp. 
