 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He morks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office,...Displaying his own beauty, starves his flock. Therefore araunt all attitude, and stare, And start theatric, practised at the glass ! I seek divine simplicity... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames...besides, Though learn'd with labour, and though much adr mired By curious eyes and judgments ill inform'd, To me is odious as the nasal twang Heard at conventicle,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His...instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves the flock ! Therefore avaunt all attitude, and stare, And start theatric, practised at the glass !... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames...attitude, and stare, And start theatric, practised at the gla , I seek divine simplicity in him, ho handles things divine ; and all besides, ' Wh , Though learn'd... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...beauty, starves his flock. Therefore avaunt all attitude and stare, And start theatric, practis'd at die glass ! I seek divine simplicity in him, Who handles...; and all besides, Though learn'd with labour, and tho' much admir'd By curious eyes and judgments ill inform'd, To me is odious as the nasal twang Heard... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life t He mocks bis Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and,...instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves bis nock. Therefore avaunt all attitude, and stare, And start theatric, practised at the glass! I seek... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 252 pages
...his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life 1 He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble...besides, . Though learn'd with labour, and though much admired. By curious eyes and judgments ill inform'd, To me is odious as the nasal twang Heard at conventicle,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 574 pages
...diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames...Who handles things divine; and all besides, Though learned with labour, and though much mired By curious eyes and judgments ill informed, To me is odious... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1825 - 370 pages
...diamond on his lily hand; And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When 1 am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames...simplicity in him Who handles things divine; and all beside, Though learn'd with labour, and though much admired By curious eyes and judgments ill-informed,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames...instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves the flock ! Therefore avaunt all attitude, and stare, And start theatric, practised at the glass !... | |
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As with the diamond on his lily hand, And play his brilliant parts before my eyes, When I am hungry for the bread of life ? He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames His noble office, and, instead of truth, Displaying his own beauty, starves his flock... 
