 | William Cowper - 1806 - 226 pages
...bow, Give wit, that what is left may shine With equal grace below. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau*, If birds confabulate or no ; • JTis clear that they were always able To hold discourse, at least, in fable ; And e'en the child,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 478 pages
...bow, Give wit, that what is left may shine With equal grace below. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau', If birds confabulate or no ; c It is one of the whimsical speculations of this philosopher, that all fables which ascribe reason... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...with a friend, preferred To liberty without, COWPBR. CHAP. XXIII. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. *I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau, If birds confabulate...always able To hold discourse, at least, in fable-; And e'en the child, who knows no better, Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 360 pages
...what is left may shine With equal grace below. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED 1 SHALL not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau *, If birds confabulate or no ; "Tis clear,...always able To hold discourse, at least in fable ; And e'en the child who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 422 pages
...left may shine With equal grace below. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE, I SHALL not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau*, If birds confabulate or no; 'Tis clear,...always able To hold discourse, at least in fable; And e'en the child who knows no better, Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...left may shine With equal grace below. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. I SHALL not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau*, If birds confabulate or no; Tis clear,...always able To hold discourse, at least in fable ; And e'en the child who knows no better, Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 396 pages
...left may shine With equal grace below. PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. I SHALL not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau*, If birds confabulate or no; "Tis clear,...always able To hold discourse, at least in fable; And e'en the child who knows no better, Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...are to feel ; — and know myself a man. PAIRING TIME AJVTICIPJ1TED. A FABLE.BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,* if birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear Ijjat they were always able To hold discourse, at least, in fable ; And ev'n the child who knows no... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 356 pages
...left may shine With equal grace below. f-'i *.PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED 1 SHALL not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau *, If birds confabulate or no ; Tis clear,...they were always able To hold discourse, at least hi fable ; And e'en the child who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 244 pages
...supply the zephyr's part, And sighs that heave a breaking heart. 27 PAIRING TIME ANTICIPATED. A FABLE. I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate...able To hold discourse — at least in fable ; And e'en the child, that knows no better Than to interpret by the letter A story of a cock and bull, Must... | |
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I SHALL not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,* If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tis clear, that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable ; And e'en the child, who knows no better Than to interpret by the letter, A story of a cock and bull, Must... 
