My panting side was charged, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. Poems - Page 70by William Cowper - 1819Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...hatred ever wrong'd her yet) May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, •. And thus give.s virtue indirect...left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixt, My panting side was charg'd; when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There... | |
| 1801 - 452 pages
...melancholy characterises his retirement. This his history we have in the following singular lines :— I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since, with many an arrow deep fixt in My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades, There... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...alo:ie Must spring that hope he pants to make his own. Hon. — y. I, pp. ISO to 8. f was a striken deer^ that left the herd Long since ; with many an arrow deep infat, A/9 panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...ever wrong'd her yet) . May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause...herd Long since ; with many an arrow deep infix'd, My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was... | |
| Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...applause ; But she has burnt her mask, not needed here, 105 Where vice has such allowance, that her shift! And specious semblances have lost their use. I was...left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixt My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew 110 To seek a tranquil death in distant shades.... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...ever wronged her yet) jMay claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause...left the herd Long since ; with many an arrow deep infixt panting side was charged, when I withdrew seek a tranquil death in distant shades, was I found... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...qver wronged her yet) May clain> -this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause;...allowance, that her shifts And specious semblances have Iqst their use. I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since; with many an arrow deep infixt... | |
| William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...of God, who loved him and gave himself for him, he thus describes, in an affecting allegory. «• I was a stricken deer, that left the herd Long since, with many an arrow, deep infix'd, My panting side was charg'd ; when I withdrew To seek a tranquil death in distant shades, There was... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...ever wrong' d her yet) May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause ; But she has hurnt her mask not needed here, Where vice has such allowance, that her shifts And specious semhlances... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 404 pages
...hatred ever wrong'd her yet) May claim this merit still — that she admits The worth of what she mimics with such care, And thus gives virtue indirect applause...the herd Long since. With many an arrow deep infix'd My panting side was charg'd, when I withdrew, To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. There was... | |
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