 | John Corry - 1809 - 236 páginas
...without flaw, And I kill my game fairly attordingto law ! 135 - • Roses for the cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age ; Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald ; llrav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder' d' of their sweets: Nectareous essences, Olympiad deWt! Next... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 páginas
...woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweeb, .Nciurccms essences, Olympian dews. Sermons, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...The re-t appears a wilderness of strange Butgav confusion —roses for the checks And lillics f.ir the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven.earth.andoceaii plunder' A of theirs wee- Is, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews ; ?iermons.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 páginas
...woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange^ But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareoua essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 páginas
...nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange/ But gay confusion ; roses for the cheek*, And lillies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the hald, Htav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder' d of their sweets, Nectareous «ssences, Olympian dev/s, Sermons,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 páginas
...woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 376 páginas
...woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, The World contemplated at a distance.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 370 páginas
...woes. . The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, The World contemplated at a distance.... | |
 | 1832 - 508 páginas
...picture of their character : a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age ; Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald ; Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered oT their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 páginas
...woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite... | |
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... 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 gay... 
