 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...But yet, methinks, to tell you true, You sell it plaguy dear.' Oh, why are farmers made so cdar&ef Or clergy made so fine! '"'• A kick that scarce would move a horse May kill a sound divine. i "* • i Then let the boobies stay at honiii; '* 'Twould cost him, I dare say, ' Less trouble taking... | |
 | 1844 - 574 pages
...and the clergyman, so ludicrously described by Cowper, in his ' Yearly Distress :' — " O, why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine ? A kick that scarce would move a horse, Mav kill a sound divine." The haste with which Marvell wrote must also be pleaded aft an excuse for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 310 pages
...none shall hear: • But yet, metl>inks, 'to tell you trne, 'You sell it plaguy dear.' Oil, why are farmers made so coarse, "Or clergy made so fine! A kick that scarce would move a fiorse. May kill a sound divine. • Then let the boobies stay at home; 'Twould cost him, I dare say,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 354 pages
...man than you " In pulpit none shall hear : " But yet, iucthinks, to tell you true, O why are fanners made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine ? A kick, that...move a horse, May kill a sound divine. Then let the boohies stay at home ; 'Twould cost him, I dare say, Less trouble taking twice the sum, Without the... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...pnlpit none shall hear : " Bnt yet, methinks, to tell yon trne, " Von sell it plagny dear." p why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine ' A kick, that scarce wonld move a horse, May kill a sonnd divine. Then let the boobies stay at home ; Twonhi cost him, I... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...pulpit none shall hear : - Bat .ret, methinks, to tell you trne, ' You sell it plaguy dear.' Oh, why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine ! A...move a horse, May kill a sound divine. Then let the hoohies stay at home ; Twould cost him, I dare say, Less tronhle taking twice the sum, Without the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...pulpit none shall hear ; " But yet, methinks, to tell you true, " You sell it plaguy dear." O why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine ? A...scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine. THE YEARL7 DtSTBE Then let the boobiea stay at home j 'Twould cost him, I dare say, Less trouble taking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...pulpit none shall hear : " But yet, methinks, to tell you tru*. " You sell it plaguy dear." O why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine ? A kick, that scarce would move a hor May kill a sound divine. Then let the boobies stay at home ; Twould cost him, I dare say, Less... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...In pulpit none shall hear; But yet, methinks, to tell you true, You sell it plaguy dear.' 0 why are farmers made so coarse, Or clergy made so fine? A...a sound divine. Then let the boobies stay at home ; "J 'would cost him, I dare say, Less trouble taking twice the sum, Without the clowns that pay. ON... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 264 pages
...pulpit none shall hear : " But yet, methinks, to tell you true, " You sell it plaguy dear." O why are farmers made so Coarse, Or clergy made so fine ? A...the boobies stay at home ; 'Twould cost him, I dare savLess trouble taking twice the sum. Without the clowns that ynv. 15* SONNET ADDRESSED TO HESRY COWPEE,... | |
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Each lugging out his bag. One talks of mildew and of frost, And one of storms of hail, And one of pigs, that he has lost By maggots at the tail. Quoth one, " A rarer man than you " In pulpit none shall hear : " But yet, methinks, to tell you true, 
