| William Cowper - 1875 - 352 страници
...lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, 95 That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit, 100 Nor in her own fond apprehension... | |
| William Cowper - 1875 - 340 страници
...lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, 55 That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit, 100 Nor in her own fond apprehension... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 страници
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and, without stop, The next in order to the top. For 'tis a truth, well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light,, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 страници
...what he could not make out 86 dispelled, drove away 88 'gan, began The rest in order, to the top ; For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. — Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete, As erst, with airy self-conceit, Nor in her own fond apprehension... | |
| 1877 - 362 страници
...Memoriam. Lost. — Praising what is LOST Makes the remembrance dear.— SHAKESPERE, Alfe Wdl. — For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...it come to light, In every cranny but the right— -COWPER, The Retired Oat. — 'Tie better to have loved and LOST Than never to have loved at all —TENNYSON,... | |
| New reader - 1879 - 392 страници
...remain a mystery! The poet summed up the common experience, of even orderly people, when he said : — For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny hut the right. I Adjustment, a setting in order. - Feudal baron, a great landowner, who held his estates... | |
| William Cowper - 1879 - 88 страници
...lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top ; For 'tis a truth well known to most, 95 That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit, • 100 Nor in her own fond... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 страници
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, \Ve seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1881 - 388 страници
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order, to the top ; For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. — Forth skipp'd the Cat, not now replete, As erst, with airy self-conceit, Nor in her own fond apprehension... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 страници
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. 95 For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete 100 As erst with airy self-conceit, Nor in her own fond apprehension... | |
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