Behold the picture ! Is it like ? Like whom ? The things that mount the rostrum with a skip And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred... Village Belles: A Novel - Sivu 44tekijä(t) Anne Manning - 1833Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| William Cowper - 1800 - 438 sivua
...skip, And then skip down again; pronounce a text; Cry — hem : and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 sivua
...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
| 1802 - 302 sivua
...And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; 410 Cry — hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers 415 And serves the altar,... | |
| John Corry - 1804 - 230 sivua
...•, And then skip down again; pronounce a text ; . Cry — hem ; *nd reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work ; And with a well-bred whisper close the scene I" Yet even these fashionable and flimsy orators are pardonable, compared with the avaricious pluralist,... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 sivua
...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry — hem ; and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene ! In man or woman, but far most in man. And most of all in man that ministers And serves tne altar,... | |
| John Corry - 1809 - 236 sivua
...skip, And thcn skip Aon n again ; pronounce a text ; Cry— -hem; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work; And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!" Yet even these fashionable and flimsey orators are pardonable, compared with the avaricious pluralist,... | |
| 1809 - 594 sivua
...with a skip, And then skip down again. Pronounce a text, Cry, hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that mmisters And serves the altar, in... | |
| Garnet Terry - 1809 - 414 sivua
...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, Cry — ' hem !' and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work ; And, with a well-bred whisper, close the scene !' Few of these, whom the poet so contemptuously calls ' things,' let it be hoped, are now found within... | |
| Peter L. Courtier - 1809 - 392 sivua
...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text, Cry — ' hem !' and reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work ; And, with a well-bred whisper, close the scene I' .', . . . '' . o • , • . '1 • .« Few of these, whom the poet so contemptuously calls ' things,'... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 212 sivua
...skip, And then skip down again ; pronounce a text ; Cry....hem ; and, reading what they never wrote, Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene I In man or woman, but far more irr man, And most of all in man that ministers And serves the altar,... | |
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