 Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams Of dayspring overshoot his humble...  Miscellaneous Scrap Book - Page 31834Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1785 - 518 pages
...in the manner of Young, ilrongly delineated. ' Whom call we gay ? that honor has been long The boaft o'f mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay— the lark is gay That dries his feathers faturate with djew •••• Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams ., _• . Of day-fpring... | |
 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...of fhame, And their invet'rate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay ?> That honor has been The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay That dries his feathers faturate with dew Beneath the rofy doud, while yet the beam* Of day-fpring overfhoot his humble neft.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...fhame, And their invet'rate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay ? That honor has been, long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay That dries his feathers faturate with dew Beneath the rofy cloud,- while yet the beams Of day-fpring overfhoot his humble neft.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pages
...offhame, And their invet'rate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay ? That honor has been long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay> That dries his feathers, faturate with dew, Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams Of day-fpring overfhoot his humble neft.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...fhame, And their invet'rate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay That dries his feathers faturate with dew Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams Of day.fpring overfhoot his humble neft.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...(líame, And their invet'ratc habits all forbid. Whom call we гау ? That honor has been long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay — the lark is gay That dries his feathers, ¡atúrate with dew. Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams Of day-fpring ovcrflioot his humble... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...And their invct'ratc habits— all forbid. Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long Tlic boaft }H- H- faturatc with dew, Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams Of day-fpring ovcrflioot his humble... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 268 pages
...offliame, And their invet'rate habits all forbid, Whom call we gay ? That honour has been long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay— the lark is gay, That dries his feathers, faturate with dew, Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams Of day>-fpring overflioot his humble... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pages
...fhame, And their invet'rate habits, all forbid. Whom call we gay? That honour has been long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay— the lark is gay, '• \ That dries his feathers, faturate with dew, Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams • Ofday-fpring overfhoot his humble... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Anecdotes - 1795 - 594 pages
...fhame, And their inve'trate habits — all forbid. Whom call we gay? That honour has been long The boaft of mere pretenders to the name. The innocent are gay...— the lark is gay, . , That dries his feathers, faturate with dew, > Beneath the rofy cloud, while yet the beams Of day-fpring overfhoot his humble... | |
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