| John Milton - 1824 - 502 pages
...Fire side enjoyments, hoineborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undis>turb'd retirement, and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening,...rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd, pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings;... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening,...rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert, proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings... | |
| Regina Maria Roche - 1825 - 926 pages
...true — ; " No powder'd pert, proficient in the art Of sounding tin alarm, would assault their doors; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while,...circle fan themselves, and quake ;" but here the needle " would ply its busy task," the poet's, or historian's page, by one be made vocal for the amusement... | |
| William Cowper - 1825 - 248 pages
...delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening,...rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the honra Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates;...proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these door* Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the so«n<f... | |
| William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...delights, Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening...rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings... | |
| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...homcborn happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Df long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels...doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds "'ough their own knell, while heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake: But... | |
| Abraham Thompson Lowe - 1831 - 232 pages
...Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Gough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake :... | |
| William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powiler'd pert proficient in the art 145 Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds Cough their owii knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake; But here the... | |
| William Jay - 1834 - 330 pages
...-light and its cares — — I crown thee king of ultimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, • And all the comforts that the lowly...and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening know." Yes, there are amusements to be found, without having recourse to noisy, public dissipations, in which... | |
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