 ... arbitrary measure here ; Else- could a law like that which I relate, Once have the sanction of our triple state, Some few, that I have known in days of old, Would run most dreadful risk of catching cold ; While you, my friend, whatever wind should...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1451831Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...Colman, Lloyd, and Bonnell Thornton ; and here he formed a life-long friendship with Joseph Hill, that 'honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.' With Colman and Thornton, Cowper now entered into literary engagements. Whilst yet at Christ Church,... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. — Pope: * Essay on Man.* An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. — Cowper: * Epistle to Joseph Hill* Princes and lords are but the breath of kings ; "An honest man's... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...a feather, and a chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. — Pope: * Essay on Man.* An honest man, close button'd to the chin. Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. — Cowper: 'Epistle to Joseph Hill* Princes and lords are but the breath of kings ; •An honest man's... | |
 | William Cowper, Thomas Wright - 1904 - 512 pages
...catching cold : While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. TO JOSEPH HILL Nov. 1784. MY DEAR FRIEND,—To condole with you on the death of a mother aged eighty-seven... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 pages
...manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Line seo. An honest man, close -button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. fpistle to Joseph If ill. Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre, he that runs... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...chief a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. 2193 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 247. An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. 2194 Cowper : Epistle to Joseph Hill, Princes and lords are but the breath of kings : " An honest man's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1813 - 378 pages
...catching cold; While you, my friend, whatever wind should blow, Might traverse England safely to and fro, An honest man, close button'd to the chin, Broad-cloth without, and a warm heart within. TIROCINIUM: OR, A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS. Jw 'srz.ietxf Ofu PLATO. DIOG. LAERT. I REV. WILLIAM CAWTHORNE... | |
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