 A messenger of grace to guilty men. 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,...  Poems - Page 50by William Cowper - 1819Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
....picture ! — Is it like ? — Uke whom ? The things that mount the roflrum with a fkip And then fkip down again. Pronounce a text, Cry, hem ; and reading what they never wrote Juft fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whifper clofe the fcene. In man or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 346 pages
...picture 1—Is it like ?—Like whom ? The things that mount the rollrum with a fk<p, And then fkip down again ; pronounce a text, Cry, hem ; and reading, what they never wrote, Juft fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whifper clofe the fcene. In man or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount th&, roftrum with a fkip And then ikip down again. Pronounce a text, Cry, hem ; and reading what they never wrote Jult fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whifper clofe the fcene. In man or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pages
...picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ^ The things that mount the roftrum with a,ikip, And then fkip down again , pronounce a text, Cry, hem ; and reading, what they never wrote, Juft fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whifper clofe the fcene. In man or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the roftrum with a fkip, And then fkip down again ; pronounce a text, Cry, hem ; and reading, what they never wrote, Juft fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whifper clofe the fcene. In man or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pages
...picture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the roflrum with a fkip, And then fkip down again; pronounce a text; Cry — hem; and, reading what they never wrote, Juft fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whifper clofe the fccnef In man or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1801 - 280 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. 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 ; (TV — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And... | |
 | John Corry - 1801 - 270 pages
...the fatirift in the following lines: " The things that mount the roftrum with a /kip, And then fkip down again ; pronounce a text; " Cry — hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Juft fifteen minutes, : hu<ldle up their work j • Arid; wi(ha well-bred whifper clofe the fcene \*... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pages
...well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men. Behold the pifture ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? 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, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 362 pages
...piclure ! — Is it like ? — Like whom ? The things that mount the roftrum with a fkip, And then fkip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry— hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Juft fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whilper clofe the fcenej In man or... | |
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