You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future broken bones and bruises, If he should chance to fall. No ; not a single thought like that Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. Poems - Page 240by William Cowper - 1803 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1849 - 508 pages
...MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The bustle and the rareeslmw That occupy mankind below Secure and at his ease. You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future broken...Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law,... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...thence securely sees The bustle and the raree-show That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his ease. You think no doubt he sits and muses On future broken...Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law,... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...chooses it the rather. The bustle and the rareeshow That occupy mankind below Secure and at his ease. You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future broken...fall. No ; not a single thought like that Employs his philofophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 476 pages
...thence securely sees The bustle and the rareeshow, That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his ease. No ; not a single thought like that Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...thence securely sees The bustle and the rareeshow, That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his ease. You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future broken...Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout, The world with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law,... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...thence securely sees The bustle and the rareeshow That occupy mankind below Secure and at his ease. ter into a metaphysical analysis of my strange composition,...on a general view of the matter, I suspect that i pnte, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout,... | |
| William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...chance to fall. No; not a single thought like that Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physie, law, Its customs, and its business, I* no concern at all of his, And says—what says he ?—Caw.... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1852 - 272 pages
...there securely sees The bustle and the raree-show That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his ease. You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future broken...Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at all. He sees that this great round-about, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law,... | |
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...there securely sees The bustle and the raree-show That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his ease. You think, no doubt, he sits and muses On future broken bones and bruises, If he should change to fall. No ; not a single thought like that Employs his philosophic pate, Or troubles it at... | |
| William Cowper - 1853 - 800 pages
...raree show, That occupy mankind below, Secure and at his cose. IV. You think, no doubt, he sits andimuM On future broken bones and bruises, If he should chance...fall. No : not a single thought like that Employs his philosophick pate. Or troubles it at all V. Ho sees, tliat this great roundabout, The world, with all... | |
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