 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pàgines
...more regret, Infected -with- the manners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayel ' My fancy, ere yet liberty of thoice . • Had found me,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pàgines
...more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes, It knew not once, the country wins me still. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, Hut there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice Had found me, or... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pàgines
...the classical authors known to me at present, those \\hich formerly became my associates, in wandenng through the woods, and which I was accustomed to read...words of Cowper, " I never framed a wish, or formed a pl;>n, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But here I laid the scene !" VOL. *. DD for or... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 pàgines
...more regret, Infected with the mauners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. • I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly hliss, Bat there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liherty of choice Had found... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pàgines
...I more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy ere yet liberty of choice Had found me or the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pàgines
...the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Burke. {0 0 {0 there I laid the scene. Cowper. FLATULENT, arfj.-v Old Fr. flatulent ; FIAT'ULENCY, ns / Ital. and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pàgines
...more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes It ki i:".v not once, the country wins me still. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet libeVty of choice Had found me, or the... | |
 | 1861 - 676 pàgines
...I more regret, Infected with the manners and the modes It knew not once, the country wins me still. I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene.f How gladly he ascribes to " Catharina" a taste for the close-woven arches... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 pàgines
...port, and afflictions, to Heaven's light. Read his beautiful confession. " The country wins me still : I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice Had found me, or the... | |
 | Lady Catherine Pollock Manners Stepney - 1838 - 326 pàgines
...interrupted by her exclamations of joy and gratitude, as they neared her once loved home. CHAPTER IX. " I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered...hopes of earthly bliss, But here I laid the scene." COWPEB. THE Duke and Dungarvon became, at length, so seriously alarmed at the continued absence of... | |
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I never framed a wish, or formed a plan, That flattered me with hopes of earthly bliss, But there I laid the scene. There early strayed My fancy, ere yet liberty of choice Had found me, or the hope of being free. My very dreams were rural, rural too... 
