 Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs no blame. Not so when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air...  Poems - Page 206by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field : There they are privileg'd ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this.... | |
 | Animal welfare - 1822 - 184 pages
...proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacieus field : There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs Hi" economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an alu.de, l'li* stun is... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...offence they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field. There they are privileg'd. And he that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, W^ho, when she form'd, designed them an abode. S. The sum is... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field : There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field ; There they are privileg'd: and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs th' economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, designed them an abode. The sum is this... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...offence they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field: There they are privileg'd. And he that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong; Disturbs th' economy of Nature's realm, Who when she form'd, design'd them an abode. 4 The sum is this:... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...their proper bounds, And guiltless of offence they range the ait, Or take their pastime in the spacious field. There they are privileged. And he that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong ; Disturbs th' economy of nature's relm, Who, wheo she form'd, designed them an abode 1.1 WOULD not... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...proper bounds, And guiltless of offence, they range the air, Or take their pastime in the spacious field : There they are privileged ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the' economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...of offence they range the air, Or take tbeir pastime in the spacious field. There they are prmleg'd. And he that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong ; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who when she fbrm'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...offence, they range the air, 575 Or take their pasiime in the spacious field : There they are privileg'd ; and he that hunts Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. 580 The sum is... | |
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