 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or...  Poems - Page 74by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...his one concern Is to. conduct it to the destin'd inn; And having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...his one concern Is to conduct it to the destin'd inn; And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold...grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, aud the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages,... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...one concern Ts to conduft it to the destin'd inn ; 10. And, having dropp'd the expefted bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold...to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. 1* Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...his one concern Is to conduct it to the destin'd inn ; And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold...Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, TOL< II. I Births, deaths,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...for intelligence — the friend, the lover, and the merchant, for the postman had just arrived, the --Messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff Vent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, or the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...intelligence — the friend, the lover, and the merchant; for th« postman had just arrived, the . •• • -Messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. ftouses in ashes, or the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 320 pages
...ashes, or the fall of stocks, ' • I ~< Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet • , . . • .1 With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks, Fast as the periods from bis fluent quill, Or chargM with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...some ; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. K 3 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stock*,r. '' m Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet . With tears, that trickled down the writer's check* : Fast as the periods from his fluent qaill, ' ici/l Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of ahsent... | |
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