| 1847 - 788 pages
...taken from our own countryman Blake, artist and poet, and a man of somewhat kindred nature : — * " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clond I saw a child, And he langhing said to me — ' Pipe a song about a lamb ;' So I piped with merry... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1833 - 292 pages
...happiness than mortals enjoy. The picture of Innocence is introduced with the following sweet verses. " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a clnud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tome — Pipe a song about a lamb ; So I piped with merry... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 292 pages
...Pipe a song about a lamb ; -- So Vpiped wjth merry cheer, r " % Pijier, pipe that song again — Bo I piped— he wept to hear. .... Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer — So T sung the same again, _ * ' -•*•?•' While he wept with joy to hear. ,- v Piper, sit thee down... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1833 - 150 pages
...Laughing? Lamb? Merry? Wept? Drop' Joy? How many dissyllables in this lesson? The Piper and the Child. On a cloud I saw a child, — And he laughing said to me, — Z. " Pipe a song about a lamb," — So I piped with merry cheer; " Piper, pipe that song again",... | |
| 740 pages
...of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ?— " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping soiigs of pleasant glee. On a cloud I saw a child, And he,...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb I' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again I' So I piped ; he wept to hear. ' '... | |
| 1867 - 738 pages
...compiled them into a book to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, place such a ripple of verse as this ? — " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...laughing, said to me : " ' Pipe a song about a lamb 1' So I piped with merry cheer. ' Piper, pipe that song again !' So 1 piped ; he wept to hear. " '... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...poems are, is to quote one or two of them. Take the introduction of the Songs of Innocence. Pipiog down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud, I saw a child, And he, laughiog, said to me, " Pipe a song about a lamb," So I piped with merry cheer ; " Piper, pipe that... | |
| 1846 - 292 pages
...Innocence is introduced with the following sweet verses. "Piping down the valleys wild, Piping SOUL'S of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he, laughing, said tome — Fine a eong about a lamb : So I piped with merry cheer. Piper, pipe that song again — So... | |
| 1847 - 818 pages
...from our own countryman Blake, artist and poet, and a man of somewhat kindred nature :— * • <£ Piping down the valleys "wild, Piping songs of pleasant...happy pipe, Sing thy songs of happy cheer — ' So I sang the same again, While he wept with joy to hear. ' Piper, sit thee down and write, In a book that... | |
| 1882 - 492 pages
...Innocence " he gives us the fable or story telling the reason of his writing. He is in the green fields: " Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant...he laughing said to me : ' Pipe a song about a lamb ;' 80 I piped with merry cheer." And then he tells us that the child was so delighted he asked to hear... | |
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