 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...his short oration, And warbling out his approbation, Released him, as my story tells, And found a supper somewhere else. Poor Moralist! and what art thou?... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent:— Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, A« much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...self-same Power Divine Taught you to sing, and me to shine f That you with music, I with light. Might beautify and cheer the night. The songster heard his short... | |
 | Science - 1832 - 298 pages
...wonn, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus quite eloquent : Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...power divine, Taught you to sing, and me to shine ; Thai you with music, I with light, Might beautify and cheer the night. The songster heard his short... | |
 | Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...right eloquent: — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would ahhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song; For...beautify and cheer the night." The songster heard this short oration, And warbling out his approbation, Released him, as my story tells, And found a... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...aware of his intent, Harangu'd him thus, right eloquent — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the self-same Pow'r divine Taught you to sing, and me to shine ; That you with music, I with light, Might beautify... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...his short oration, And warbling out his approbation, Released him, as my story tells, And found a supper somewhere else. HE WOULD BE A SOLDIER. Charles.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 pages
...worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...short oration. And, warbling out his approbation, Released him, as my story tells, And found a supper somewhere else. Hence jarring sectaries may learn... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 394 pages
...aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent. — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy, You would abhor to do me...his short oration, And warbling out his approbation, Released him, as my story tells, And found a supper somewhere else. Hence jarring sectaries may learn,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...thus, right eloquent : — ' Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsey, \ ou would abhor to do me wrong, As much as I to spoil...Taught you to sing, and me to shine ; That you with musick, I with Hght. Might beautify and cheer the night." The songster heard his short oration, And... | |
 | 1836 - 496 pages
...eloquent : — " Did you adnure my lamp," quoth he " As much as I your minstrelsey, You would abhor tp do me wrong, As much as I to spoil your song ; For 'twas the ecu-same Power divine Taught you to sing, and me to shine ; That you with musick, I with light. Might... | |
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He spied far off upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark. So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent : 
