 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...youthful muse, Sportive and jingling her poetic bells, Ere yet her ear was mistress of their pow'rs. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To...never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling, as he sang, The rustic throng beneath his fav'rite beech; For folly, gallantry for ev'ry vice. Then Milton... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive and jingling her poetic bells, Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tunea To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe The rustic throng... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 468 pages
...700 The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive and jingling her poetic bells, Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose tyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats 705 Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 pages
...too The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive and jingling her poetic bells, Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 540 pages
...too The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 622 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 340 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 344 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1865 - 338 pages
...too The first-born efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1870 - 574 pages
...too The firstborn efforts of my youthful muse, Sportive, and jingling her poetic bells Ere yet her ear was mistress of their powers. No bard could please me but whose lyre was tuned To Nature's praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigued me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus,... | |
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the ear was mistress of their powers No Bard could please me but whose lyre was tun'd To nature's Praises. Heroes and their feats Fatigu'd me, never weary of the pipe Of Tityrus, assembling as he 
