 Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.  Poems - Page 77by William Cowper - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - English literature - 1889 - 196 pages
..." Dull product of a scoffer's pen," with Cowper's picture in Truth of the aged cottager who " Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew." Even in that exotic masterpiece of the poet's genius, Laodameia, Protesilaos preaches from the gospel... | |
 | John McNeill - 1890 - 428 pages
...day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth...Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies." Then he goes on still further to bring out the... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons, English - 1891 - 384 pages
...Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, — Toilsome ind indigent, — she renders much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, — A truth...Frenchman never knew, — And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. O happy peasant, O unhappy bard, His the mere... | |
 | 1894 - 516 pages
...; felly hefyd gall Mephisto heddyw ragori ar Renan ond iddo lafurio am у sicrwydd hwn : — " Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth...Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies." Abermaw. D. EVANS. "A MARWOLAETH Ш BYDD MWÏACH."... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1897 - 388 pages
...store, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that treasure reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a mansion in the skies. O happy peasant ! O unhappy... | |
 | 1897 - 638 pages
...demigod revere. "Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. "He praised, perhaps, for ages yet to come ; She never heard of half a mile from home ;" With Cowper,... | |
 | Robert Shields - England - 1900 - 370 pages
...one end of the country to the other. And oh, still harder lesson, how to die. BEILBY PORTEUS. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. COWPBK. A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBSON. The whiteness... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1900 - 372 pages
...one end of the country to the other. And oh, still harder lesson, how to die. BEILBY POBTEUS. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. COWPEB. A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. EDWARD GIBSON. The whiteness... | |
 | Peter Hampson Ditchfield - Buckinghamshire (England) - 1901 - 250 pages
...wit ; Receives no praise ; but though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth...Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies." The Patron Saint of the craft is St. Andrew,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...wit, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth...Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. to Oh happy peasant ! oh unhappy bard ! His the... | |
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