 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1856 - 652 pages
...neglecting land ; Lethffian gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the Clerk 1 The Book of JEcclaiostes Explained. By JAMES MAODONALD, DD, Princeton, New Jersey. New York : MW... | |
 | Criticism - 1856 - 652 pages
...neglecting land; Lethtean gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the Clerk ! 77.- Book of Ecclerieutet Explained. By JAMES MACDONALD, DD, Princeton, New Jersey. New York : MW... | |
 | Christian education - 1845 - 330 pages
...how Cowper illustrates the vain efforts of ignoble persons, to give immortality to their names : ' So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fireThere goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark 1 And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tmder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views...and there goes the 'squire, There goes the parson, ob illustrious spark ! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CAPE,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...neglecting hand, Lethean gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANT OF THE BOOKS. BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...Cowper, Poems, ed. 1798, i. 272, may not improperly be referred to the ancient fire divinations : " So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! " THE HOWLING OF DOGS. A SUPERSTITIOUS opinion vulgarly prevails that the howling of a dog by night... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 508 pages
...neglected hand ; Lethssan gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...my lady, and there goes the squire. There goes the parsoiij oh illustrious spark ! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...neglected harm ; hethsan gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There...my lady, and there goes the squire. There goes the parsonv oh illustrious spark ! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...neglecting hand; Lethamn gulfs receive them as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt...goes the parson, oh illustrious spark ! And there, scaree less illustrious, goes the clerk 1 REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OP THE... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...as they fall, And dark oblivion soon absorbs them all. So when a child, as playful children use, 3as burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame...And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk! REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE, NOT TO BE FOnND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS. BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest... | |
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So when a child, as playful children use, Has burnt to tinder a stale last year's news, The flame extinct, he views the roving fire — There goes my lady, and there goes the squire, There goes the parson, oh ! illustrious spark, And there, scarce less... 
