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" gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. "
Poems - Page 214
by William Cowper - 1826
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Treasury of choice quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says — what says he ? — Caw. The JacMnw. For 't is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Tia Retired Cat. MRS. THRALE. 1740-1822. ' I "'HE tree of deepest root...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life, and Critical Notice of His ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1870 - 574 pages
...C'onsoled him and dispell'd his fears : He left his bed, lie trod the floor, He 'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit,...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1870 - 226 pages
...drawers explore, The lowest first, and withont stop The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a trnth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, ln every crauny hnt the right. Forth sklpp'd tne cat, not now replete As erst with airy seif-conceit....
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The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller, Volume 2

Peter Bayne - Geologists - 1871 - 512 pages
...Consoled him and dispelled his fears ; He left his bed, he trod the floor, He 'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit....
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John Heywood's Manchester readers. [With] Key, pt.1,2, Book 3

John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 164 pages
...Consoled him and dispelled his fears. He left his bed, he trod the floor, And 'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest...thing is lost, We seek it ere it come to light In every corner but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete, As erst, with airy self-conceit,...
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Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems, Issue 352

William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1872 - 264 pages
...Consoled him and dispell'd his fears ; He left his bed, he trod the floor, He 'gan in haste the draw'rs explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest...well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, SONNET TO WILLIAM WILItEllFOBCE, ESQ. 215 We seek it, ere it eome to light, In ev'ry eranny but the...
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Jarrolds' new code reading books. Infant classes [and] 1st-6th standard

Jarrold and sons, ltd - 1872 - 198 pages
...Consol'd him and dispell'd his fears ; He left his bed, he trod the floor, He 'gan in haste the drawers t' explore, The lowest first, and without stop, The...order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, We seek it ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete...
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Aunt Atta again; or, The long vacation

Henrietta Louisa Lear - Aunts - 1872 - 254 pages
...eager by occasional distant voices heard calling to Katharine to make haste ; but it was in vain :— " For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...thing is lost, We seek it ere it come to light In every cranny but the right." They rode away, and poor Katharine returned to the school-room feeling...
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A selection of English poetry, designed for the use of schools ..., Issue 912

English poetry - 1873 - 390 pages
...Consoled him, and dispelled his fears ; He left his bed, he trod the floor, He 'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit,...
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Cowper. The didactic poems of 1782, with selections from the minor ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1874 - 320 pages
...Consoled him and dispelled his fears : 90 He left his bed, he trod the floor, He 'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest...order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, 95 That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right....
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