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" 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 327
by William Cowper - 1788
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1832 - 406 pages
...shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark , So, stooping from the hawthorn top, Vie 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, AĞ much as I your minstrelsy,...
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A Collection, in Prose and Verse, for the Use of Schools

Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 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...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 self-same...
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The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review ...

William Cowper - 1835 - 620 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,...
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Fables and moral maxims, in verse and prose, selected by A. Parker

Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...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,...
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The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the ..., Volume 7

William Cowper - 1835 - 406 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,...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 3

1836 - 496 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 adnure my lamp," quoth he " As much as I your minstrelsey,...
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The Reader and Speaker: Containing Lessons for Rhetorical Reading and ...

Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 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,...
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Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 394 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,...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge

1836 - 496 pages
...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 minstrelsey, \ ou would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same...
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Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 396 pages
...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, You would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song, For 'twas the self-same...
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