 | 1801 - 454 pages
...episode of Crazy Kate is simple and afFeftmg, and the description of the gypsies highly pifturesque. I see a column of slow-rising smoke, O'ertop the lofty...morsel— flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of-cock purloin'd • From his accustom'd perch. Hard faring race ! jg. They pick their fuel out of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...comelier clothes, Though pinch'd with cold, asks never.. ..Kate is craz'd ! I see a column of slow rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild.......flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloin'd From his accustom'd perch. Hard faring race ! They pick their fuel out of ev'ry hedge,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...comelier clothes, Though pinch'd with cold, asks never.—Kate is craz'd. I see a column of slow rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild....Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel—flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or at best of cock purloin'd From his accustom'd perch. Hard-faring... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...hnnger oft, or comelier clothes, Thongh pinch'd with cold, asks never.— Kate is craz'd. I see a colnmn of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and nseless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slnng Between two poles npon a stick trausverse,... | |
 | John Hoyland - Romani language - 1816 - 278 pages
...poet, Cowper; as will appear by the following sketch: " I see a column of slow rising smoke, O'cr-top the lofty wood, that skirts the wild. A vagabond and...useless tribe, there eat Their miserable meal. A Kettle t, Slung between two poles, upon a stick transverse', Receives the morsel: flesh obscene of hog, Or... | |
 | 1817 - 482 pages
...ceased to love, that part of ' the Task,' in which the author says, " I see a column of slow rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood, that skirts the wild....Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel—flesh obscene of dog, From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race! Or vermin, or at best of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...pressed with hanger oft, or comelier clothes, Though pinched with cold, asks never. — Kate is crawl. I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood, that skirts the wild, A vagahond and aseless trihe there eat Their miserahle meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...civilized life. The scene is almost literally pourtrayed by the inimitable pencil of a modern Bard : — I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wilJ: A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A KETTLE, Sluing between two poles,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...pressed with hunger oft, or comelier clothes, Thongh pinched with cold, asks never. — Kate is crazed. I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood, that skirts Ihe wild, A vagahond and useless trihe there eat Their miserahle meal. A kettle, slung Between two... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...press'd with hunger oft, or comelier clothes, Tho' pinch'd with cold, asks never. — Kate is crazed. I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty...— flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or at best of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race! They pick their fuel out of every hedge,... | |
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I see a column of slow-rising smoke O'ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild. A vagabond and useless tribe there eat Their miserable meal. A kettle, slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse, Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin,... 
