| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 páginas
...Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favorite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great... | |
| Henry Dircks - 1870 - 454 páginas
...an old acquaintance in our next and last advertisement ; he being no less a personage than — ' " Katterfelto, with his hair on end, At his own wonders, wondering for his bread." COWPER, The Task, b. iv. He was, at the date of the cited advertisement, going the round of the British... | |
| William Cowper - 1870 - 574 páginas
...Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great... | |
| William Cowper - 1870 - 226 páginas
...Sermous, and city feasts and favonrite airs, .¿Ethereal jonrneys, snhmarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his hread. 'Tis pleasant, throngh the loopholes of rotreat, To peep at snch a world ; to see the stir Of... | |
| James Grant - 1871 - 478 páginas
...Olympian dews, Sermons and city leasts, and favourite airs, ./Etherial journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Along with Cowper's natural tendency to satire, which we discern in several parts of this extract,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 132 páginas
...Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, ./Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great... | |
| Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 páginas
...Sermons and city feasts, and favourite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. THE LETTER-BAG. 'Tis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the... | |
| 1873 - 740 páginas
...electric and microscopical exhibitions. Cowper, in his " Task " alludes to him : — "And Katcrfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread." The " arch-quack " Cagliostro, whose story is told by Carlyle, favored England with his presence from... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 páginas
...electric and microscopical exhibitions. Cowper, in his ' Task,' alludes to him : " And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread." The " arch-quack" Cagliostro, whose story is told by Carlyle, favored England with his presence from... | |
| William Adams - 1873 - 392 páginas
...Sermons, and city feasts, and favorite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. Loquacious as we have been — many as are the marvels which have passed under our notice, we have... | |
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