 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...  Poems, - Страница 165написао/ла William Cowper - 1817Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Walter Bagehot - 1908 - 296 страница
...while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed, The little ones unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot,...chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw ; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dextrous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1913 - 456 страница
...while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot,...chalky ring and knuckle down at taw, To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat; — The pleasing spectacle at... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 664 страница
...while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, yet not destroyed. The little ones unbutton 'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot...and draw The chalky ring and knuckle down at taw. This fond attachment to the well known place, When first we started into life's long race, Maintains... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 634 страница
...destroyed. The little ones unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As nappy as we once to kneel and draw The chalky ring and knuckle down at taw. This fond attachment to the well known place, When first we started into life's long race, Maintains... | |
 | Martin Lovering - 1915 - 822 страница
...while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot;...chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat; The pleasing spectacle at once... | |
 | James Langdon Hill - 1920 - 296 страница
...them and he who obtained most of them by beating them put of the ring was the winner. We were happy "To kneel and draw The chalky ring and knuckle down at taw." Here in this trunk were my old club skates which I used to sharpen myself and tie on with strings and... | |
 | Leonard Southerden Wood - 1921 - 396 страница
...while deep employ'd, 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...chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat ; The pleasing spectacle at once... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1925 - 328 страница
...Westminster even in Lord John Russell's boyhood. And can old Westminsters recall, like Cowper, being happy " 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 dexterous pat." Almost sixty years ago, a middle-aged... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - 2006 - 230 страница
...and most frequently cited passages of "Tirocinium" begins with an echo of Gray's Eton College ode: 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 dex'trous pat. (306-9) Cowper employs the common... | |
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