 Behold the picture ! Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred...  The Guardian - Side 1081854Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 sider
...Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; Cry — hem : and, reading what they never wrote,...that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath » All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust. What! — will a... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 280 sider
...The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text ; (TV — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen...minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whimper close the scene! In man or woman, but far most in mnn, And most of all in man that ministers... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 sider
...whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and, reading what they never wrote,...that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust. . What ! — will a... | |
 | 1802 - 302 sider
...? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; 410 Cry — hem ; and, reading what they never wrote,...most in man, And most of all in man that ministers 415 And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affeftation 'Tis my perfeft scorn ; Objeft of my... | |
 | John Corry - 1804 - 230 sider
...mount the rostrum with a skip, •, And then skip down again; pronounce a text ; . Cry — hem ; *nd reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes,...work ; And with a well-bred whisper close the scene I" Yet even these fashionable and flimsy orators are pardonable, compared with the avaricious pluralist,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 sider
...whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just...man. And most of all in man that ministers And serves tne altar, in my soul I loath All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object of my implacable disgust.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 sider
...Like whom? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text; Cry — hem; and reading what they never wrote, Just...whisper close the scene! In man or woman, but far most iu man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar, in my soul I loath All affectation.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 sider
...ivhoiu ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, ,.And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just...fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, ., , And with a wellhred whisper close the scene 1 -,:.-i - .„. inn.'. In man or woman, hut far most in man, And... | |
 | 1809 - 594 sider
...whom ? The things that mount flic rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again. Pronounce a text, Cry, hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen...woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that mmisters And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn ; Object... | |
 | Peter L. Courtier - 1809 - 392 sider
...- o . ' The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, Cry — ' hem !' and reading what they never wrote,...work ; And, with a well-bred whisper, close the scene I' .', . . . '' . o • , • . '1 • .« Few of these, whom the poet so contemptuously calls ' things,'... | |
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