 | William Cowper - 1806 - Страниц: 490
...WC J* v .» ••'..•* • •- . •• •'•"" •"'» . i : .. .1 '; .-i.- %| •.'•• 71 RETIRED CAT* A poet's Cat, sedate and grave, As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to enquire For nooks, to which she might retire, And where secure as mouse in chink, She might repose,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1809 - Страниц: 486
...or rather would be, if leeches were not found in every ditch, an invaluable acquisition. WC VOL. 3. RETIRED CAT.* A poet's Cat, sedate and grave, As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to enquire For nooks, to which she might retire, And where secure as mouse in chink, She might repose,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - Страниц: 434
...triumpbs crown their toils divine, And all those triumpbs, Mary, now are thine. THE RETIRED CAT. [1791.] A POET'S Cat, sedate and grave As poet well could...secure as mouse in chink, She might repose, or sit and thiuk. I kimw not where she caught the trk'k — Nature perhaps herself had cast her In such a mould... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - Страниц: 528
...triumphs crown their toils divine, And all those triumphs, Mary, now are thine. THE RETIRED CAT, [1791-] A POET'S Cat, sedate and grave As poet well could...where, secure as mouse in chink, She might repose, of sit and think. I know not where she caught the trick — Nature perhaps herself had cast 'her In... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - Страниц: 514
...volume. In the ining of the Retired Cat, the reader will perhaps recogsomething of Swift's manner. A poet's cat, sedate and grave, As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to enquire For nooks to which she might retire» And where secure as mouse in chink, She might repose,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - Страниц: 244
...hatred she ever has shown To the black-sceptred rulers of slaves, Resolves to have none of her own. THE RETIRED CAT. A POET'S Cat, sedate and grave As...have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks to which sho might retire, And where, secure as mouse in chink, She might repose, or sit and think. I know not... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 418
...Steiß. A poet's cat, sedate and crave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to enquire For nooks to which she might retire, And where, secure as mouse in chink. She might repose, or sit and tiiink. Cou-per. MOUSE, in naval affairs, is the name of a sort of knob, usually in the shape of a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Страниц: 820
...you have fowl in the larder, leave the door open, in pity to the cat, if she be a good mouser. Swift. A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to enquire For nooks to which she might retire, And where, secure as тоиле in chink, She might repose,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Страниц: 406
...yet he dwells below, must stoop to glean His manna from .the ground, or starve and die. May, 1791. THE RETIRED CAT.* A POET'S cat, sedate and grave As...addicted to inquire For nooks to which she might retire, * Cowper's partiality to animals is well known. Lady Hesketh, in one of her letters, states, " that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1839 - Страниц: 302
...overwhelmed by thee, Can we think, without emotion, What must thy Creator be ? Bernard Barton. 185.— THE RETIRED CAT. A poet's cat, sedate and grave, As...mouse in chink, She might repose, or sit and think. Sometimes ascending, with an air, An apple-tree, or lofty pear, Lodged with convenience in the fork.... | |
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THE RETIRED CAT. A POET'S Cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks to which she might retire, And where, secure as mouse in chink, She might repose, or sit and think. 
