Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown forbids the play Of fancy, or proscribes the sound of mirth: Nor do we madly, like an impious world, Who deem religion frenzy, and the God That made them an intruder on their joy»,... The Saturday Magazine - Page 1331841Full view - About this book
| Caroline Fry Wilson - 1867 - 510 pages
...mind disordered and disarranged by too much bustle. Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, NOT such as with a frown forbids the play Of fancy, or proscribes the sounds of mirth : Nor do we madly, like an impious world, Who deem religion frenzy, and the God That... | |
| William Francis Collier - American literature - 1869 - 572 pages
...their humble doors, And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoyed, spare feast ! a radish and an egg. Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such...frenzy, and the God That made them an intruder on their jms, Start at his awful name, or deem his A jarring note. CW) 25 CHAPTER VL GEORGE GORDON, IORD BYXON.... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1870 - 574 pages
...their humble doors, And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoy'd, spare feast ! a radish and an egg 1 Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such...frenzy, and the God That made them an intruder on their joyg, Start at his awful name, or deem his praise A jarring note. Themes of a graver tine, Exciting... | |
| William Cowper - 1870 - 226 pages
...frown forhlds the play Or fancy, or proscrihes the sonnd of mirth; Nor do we madlv, like an impions world, Who deem religion frenzy, and the God That made them an intrnder on their joys. Start at his awfnl name, or deem his praise A jarring note. Themes of a graver... | |
| William Francis Collier - American literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoyed, spare feast ! a radish and an egg. Discourse eusnes, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown...of mirth: Nor do we madly, like an impious world, WIio deem religion frenzy, and the God That made them an intruder on their joys, Start at his awful... | |
| Charles John Smith - English language - 1871 - 630 pages
...flew." Pope. "For how art thou a king, But by fair sequence and succession ?" Shakespeare. "IHsrourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown forbids the J'lay Of fancy, or proscribes the sound of mirth." Cowper. FOLLOWER. See ADHERENT. FONDLE. See CARESS.... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...their humble doors, And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoyed spare feast, a radish and an egg. Discourse ensues, not trivial yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown forbids the play Of fancy, or prescribes the sound of mirth : Nor do we madly, like an impious world, Who deem religion frenzy, and... | |
| William Cowper - 1874 - 304 pages
...their humble doors, And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoyed, spare feast! a radish and an egg. Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown forbids the play 175 Of fancy, or proscribes the sound. of mirth: , Nor do we madly, like an impious world, Who deem... | |
| William Cowper - 1874 - 320 pages
...their humble doors, And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoyed, spare feast! a radish and an egg. Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown forbids the play 175 Of fancy, or proscribes the sound of mirth : Nor do we madly, like an impious world, Who deem religion... | |
| Léon Boucher - 1874 - 454 pages
...their humble doors, And under an old oak's domestic shade, Enjoy'd, spare feast! a radish and an egg. Discourse ensues, not trivial, yet not dull, Nor such as with a frown forhids the play Of fancy, or proscribes the sound of mirth ; Nor do we madly, like an impious world,... | |
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