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" No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake. "
The Task: A Poem. In Six Books - Page 103
by William Cowper - 1810 - 193 pages
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...hours Of long uninterrupled ev'ning know. No ratthng wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...fan themselves and quake : But here the needle plies it's busy task ; The pattern grows; the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...Of long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short hefore these gates ; No powdered pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circles fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its husy task, The pattern grows, the...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circles fan themselves and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 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...needle plies its busy task, ! The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...uninterrupted ev'ninfir, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; VoL. II. 10 No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle tan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well depicted...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...the street rings ; no stationary steeds Congh their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, I tie silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here...its busy task, The pattern grows, the well depicted flower, Wronght patiently into the snowy lawn, Uafolds its bosom; bnds, and leaves, and sprigs, A ad...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...rattling wheels stopt short before these gates . No powdered pert proficient in the art Vol.. II K Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the...its busy task, The pattern grows, the well depicted flower. Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 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,...themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies it's busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn,...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...Of long uninterupteu evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powdered pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circles fan themselves and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 18

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 572 pages
...trace the scene." Even a lady working a pattern is made poetical, when " the well-depicted rlow'r, Wrought patiently, into the snowy lawn Unfolds its...leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully disposed, Follow the nimble finger of a fair, A wreath that cannot fade," &c. &c. The two greatest...
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