 So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less...  Poems - Page 313by William Cowper - 1814Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1782 - 384 pages
...abforbs them all. So when a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the 'fquire, There goes the parfon, oh ! ilhiilrious'fpark, ' And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes... | |
 | William Cowper - 1782 - 378 pages
...a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ftale lift year's news, The flame extincl, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the Tquire, There goes the parfon, oh ! illuftrious fpark, • ' * • • ' ••* And there, fcarce... | |
 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...abforbs them all. So when a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire, There goes my. lady, and there goes the Tquire, There goes the parfon, oh ! illuftrious fpark, And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 334 pages
...abforbs them all. So when a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the fquire, There goes the parfon, oh ! illuftrious fpark, And there, fcarcc lefs illuftrious, goes the... | |
 | 1788 - 404 pages
...a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a (tile lait year's news, The flame extinc>, he views the roving fire There goes my Lady, and there goes the Squire ; There goes the Parfcn; oh ilUtltrtous Spark ! And there, fcarce lei's illuitrjous, goes the Clerk. LINES Written in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 312 pages
...LAW CASE. So when a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ft.ile laft year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the fquire, There goes the parfon, oh ! illullrious fpark, And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 378 pages
...abforbs them all. So when a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the fquire, There goes the parfon, oh! illuftrious Ipark, And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes the... | |
 | 1805 - 948 pages
...Has burntto cindera stale last -year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire, There pocs my lady, and there goes the Squire. There goes the...there — scarce less illustrious — goes the clerk!' " Virgil admits none but worthies int. i ihc Elysian fields ; I cannot recollect the lines in which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 pages
...child, аь playful children uie, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, T'ie flame cxtinit, he views the roving fire, There goes my lady, and there goes the Tquire; There goes the parfon, O illuftrious fpark ! And there, fcarce lefs iliuftrious, goes the clerk.... | |
 | Select epigrams - 1797 - 224 pages
...a child, as playful children ufe, Has burnt to tinder a ftale laft year's news, The flame extinft, he views the roving fire — There goes my Lady, and there goes the 'Squire, There goes the Parfon, oh, illuftrious fpark ! And there, fcarce lefs illuftrious, goes the Clerk ! A DISTICH, BY... | |
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