 Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song; For 'twas the...  Poems - Page 327by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Dorothea Lynde Dix - 1829 - 402 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus quite eloquent : Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm hy his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...npon'the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. 2. The worm aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — ' Did you admire my lamp,'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 374 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent :— " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he» " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark! So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent :— " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - 1832 - 366 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the GLOW-WORM, by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The WORM, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - 1832 - 388 pages
...shining in the dark, And knew the GLOW-WORM, by his spark ; NIGHTINGALE AND GLOWWORM. 183 So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The WORM, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
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