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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 436
1820
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 7

England - 1820 - 730 pages
...from the dust. (* I presume that Dr К. is the same person who is mentioned by a Mr William Ccnrper, in a copy of verses, called the Task, which was obligingly...a young gentleman, who hath a turn for poetry. He saitb, there is — — • Katterfelto, with his hair on end, At his own wonders wondering for his...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...Olympian dews, Sermons and city feasts, and favourite airs, .(Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 80

British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...[sweets, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, .ZEtherial journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...
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Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...science, and requires a little ostentation and mock-gravity in the professor. A man may here rival Katterfelto, " with his hair on end at his own wonders, wondering for his bread;" for, if he does not, he may in the end go without it. He may ride on a high trotting horse, in green...
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Table-talk; or, Original essays, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...science, and requires a little ostentation and mock-gravity in the professor. A man may here rival Katterfelto, " with his hair on end at his own wonders, wondering for his bread ;" for, if he does not, he may in the end go without it. He may ride on a high trotting horse, in green...
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The Task

William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, ^Etherial journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...Sermons, and city-feasts, and favourite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Volume 1

Allan Cunningham - 1832 - 324 pages
...graphic portion of the show, Hogarth has not meddled. Strolling players, fire-eaters, jugglers — " Katterfelto with his hair on end At his own wonders wondering for his bread — simple-faced countrymen, nimble pickpockets, and ladies with roguish eyes, are the actors who fill...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat. To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great...
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An Inquiry Into the Truth of History

History - 1830 - 164 pages
...that essential article ; so that the wonderful Xerxes may have resembled Cowper's Katerfelto, — " With his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread." But Mardonius: — if Mardonius was naturally disposed to do extraordinary things, Herodotus was disposed...
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