Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the selfsame power divine Taught you. to sing, and me to shine ; That you with music, I with light Might beautify... Poems - Страница 327по William Cowper - 1782 - 359 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 страници
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent ; — • "Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor (2) to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 806 страници
...down from ha\vthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangii'd him thus right eloquent. Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
| Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1854 - 104 страници
...the glowworm by its spark ; And stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm aware of his intent, Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent : Did you admire my lamp, said he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song... | |
| Alexander Reid - 1854 - 154 страници
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song : For 'twas the self-same... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 476 страници
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop ; The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent. — "Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song, For 'twas the self-same... | |
| Edward J. Hallock - 1854 - 260 страници
...thee. He wore' his cloak when I first beheld1 him, but soon laid' it aside. But Beware7 of men. • " Did you admire my lamp, quoth' he, As much as I your minstrelsy." It rained violently. It thaws slowly to-day. It snows. PARTICLES. § 170. The parts of... | |
| William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 страници
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, H arangued him thus, right eloquent : — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he> As mack as 1 your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as 1 to spoil your song : For 'twas... | |
| William Oland Bourne - 1854 - 350 страници
...his crop. The WOEM, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : BKUTHEELY LOVE. 28] " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same... | |
| 1855 - 784 страници
...little hands were never made To tear each other's ejes. Said the glowworm to the nightingale : — Did you. admire my lamp (quoth he), As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For, 'twas the selfsame... | |
| Frederick Howard (assistant master of Stationers' school, London.) - 1872 - 212 страници
...down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent: ' Did you admire my lamp,' quoth he, ' As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong As much as I to spoil your song; For 'twas the self-same... | |
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