 | George Crabbe - 1819 - 358 pàgines
...saw the brute " Was disappointed that I did not shoot; " My morning walks I now could bear to lose " In fact, I felt a languor stealing on ; " The active...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. " My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth " To the light reading of unsettled youth ; " Novels... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 238 pàgines
...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. ' ' My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth " To the light reading of unsettled youth ; "... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 248 pàgines
...wont before, " But now the bounding spirit was no more ; " A moderate pace would now my body heat, " I show'd my stranger-guest those hills sublime, "...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. e ' My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth " To the light reading of unsettled youth ; "... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 238 pàgines
...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. " My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth " To the light reading of unsettled youth ; " Novels... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 232 pàgines
...advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " Six years had past, and forty ere the six, " When Time began to play his...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. " My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth ' ' To the light reading of unsettled youth ; "... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 232 pàgines
...My morning walks I now could bear to lose, " Arid bless'd the shower that gave me not to choose i " In fact, I felt a languor stealing on; " The active...peaches, look'd how stocks arose, " Told the same story oft—in short, began to prose. " My books were changed; I now preferr'd the truth " To the light reading... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 366 pàgines
...agile hand were gone ; " Small daily actions into habits grew, " And new dislike to forms and fashion new ; " I loved my trees in order to dispose, " I...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. " My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth " To the light reading of unsettled youth ; " Novels... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 368 pàgines
...agile hand were gone ; " Small daily actions into habits grew, " And new dislike to forms and fashion new ; " I loved my trees in order to dispose, " I...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. " My books were changed ; I now preferr'd the truth" To the light reading of unsettled youth ; " Novels... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 318 pàgines
...view ; " But half advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " The blood once fervid now to cool began, " And Time's...same story oft — in short, began to prose. (') (1, r.''The' Old Bachelor,' who had been five times on the brink of matrimony, is mixed up of sorrow and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 324 pàgines
...view ; " But half advancing, half retreating, kept " At his old distance, and the business slept. " The blood once fervid now to cool began, " And Time's...Told the same story oft — in short, began to prose. (i) (1) [" The' Old Bachelor,' who had been five times on the brink of matrimony, is mixed up of sorrow... | |
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I took my dog and gun, but saw the brute " Was disappointed that I did not shoot ; " My morning walks I now could bear to lose, " And bless'd the shower that gave me not to choose : " In fact, I felt a languor stealing on ; " The active arm, the agile... 
