 | Sara Wood - 1843 - 312 pages
...with her feelings ? Her tears fell fast as she walked in silence by her father's chair. CHAPTER IX. " Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast...mere pretenders to the name ; The innocent are gay." COWPER. HER father continued so well the following day, that Elizabeth felt there could be no objection... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...and remorse, the fear of shame, And their inveterate habits, all forbid. GAIETY. WHOM call we gay 1 That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders...saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of day-spring overshoot his humble nest ; The peasant too, a witness of his song, Himself a songster,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1845 - 394 pages
...fear of shame, And their inveterate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay? That honour has been long v The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent...saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. 3 The peasant, too, a witness of his song, Himself a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 460 pages
...Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame, ( And their inveterate habits, all forbid. 490 Whom call we gay 1 That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders...saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. The peasant, too, a witness of his song, Himself a songster,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame, And their inveterate habits, all forbid. 4yo Whom call we gay 1 That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders...saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. The peasant, too, a witness of his song, Himself a songster,... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pages
...•' Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame, • , And their inveterate hahits, all forbid. 490 Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay25 ; — the lark is gay That dries his feathers saturate with dew Beneath the rosy cloud, while... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pages
...that breeds Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame, And their inveterate habits, all forbid. 490 Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay34 ; — the lark is gay That dries his feathers saturate with dew Beneath the rosy cloud, while... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...that breeds Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame, And their invet'rate habits, all forbid. 490 Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...solitude, that breeds Reflection and remorse, the fear of shame, And their inveterate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay? That honour has been long The boast...saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. f The peasant, too, a witness of his song, Himself a... | |
 | Anna Letitia Waring - 1855 - 152 pages
...temperament, if you transgress the dictates of nature, any more than when you break the laws of God. " Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast...saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. The peasant, too, a witness of his song, Himself a songster,... | |
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Whom call we gay? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. 
