 And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy, Houses in ashes, and the fall...  Poems, - Страница 74написао/ла William Cowper - 1817Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 948 страница
...10 And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands,...stocks, . Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles, wet (- f With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks . Fast as the periods from his fluent quill,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 страница
...10 And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indiff 'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages,... | |
 | 1883 - 900 страница
...of the " Postman " ("Task," bk. iv.), says : — He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful ; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands,...to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy. In Shield's opera of " The Farmer," the singer — " now a saucy footman " — thus reverts to his... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1908 - 156 страница
...; And having dropped the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and yet cheerful ; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands,...to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. 30 Houses in ashes and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 страница
...concern Is to conduct it to the destined inn, 10 He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. 15 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 страница
...10 And, having dropped th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. I5 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages,... | |
 | Will David Howe, Myron Thomas Pritchard, Elizabeth Virginia Brown - 1909 - 416 страница
...And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands,...his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1909 - 292 страница
...inn, And, having dropt the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold, and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands,...to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. You see, we still read Cowper in My Cranford, as we should, and we prefer above all modern versions... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 страница
...I0 And, having dropt the expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light hearted wretch, Cold I with sobs did pray — " O let me be awake, my...sleep alway." 'The harbor-bay was clear as glass, '5 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears,... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young, James Francis Augustine Pyre - 1910 - 656 страница
...messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. 'S Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistjes wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's checks Fast as the periods from his fluent... | |
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