...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...

...dropped the expected bag, pass on. NINETEENTH CENTURY He whistl&s as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold H 6;ؿ6; =5; 15 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears...

...inn, And having dropped th' expectant 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. COWPER IN 1690 began the practice of appointing two joint Postmasters-General to operate the British...

...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,...

...inn; 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. Methinks, as I have always thought, that Cowper here missed the expression...

...the mode of the most significant domestic fiction of the era. The postman's letters bear novel news: Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths,...cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive . . . (bk. 4, 11. 16-21) Whatever...