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" ... forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe, or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and,... "
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Page 152
1847
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...springs, and such like things, with so much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was foreed to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing...
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The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1851 - 790 pages
...by hook or crook, write .•mother book, if I live and am here, another year. I have heard before, of a room with a floor laid upon springs, and such like tilings, with so much art in every part, that when you went in you was forced to begin a minuet pace,...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 1

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...the concluding paragraph as a specimen, for the amusement of our readers : — " I have heard before of a room, with a floor laid upon springs, and such...things, with so much art, in every part, that when you were in, you were forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in, now...
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The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ...

English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
..."рол springs, and such (ike things, with so much *rt, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out. with * rhyming fit. what win make you dance, and us you advance, will keep you still,...
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The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ...

English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...containing a simile, of which we think they must immediately feel the propriety. " I hove heard before e ; Their sweet-scented woodlands that skirt the proud palace, [slave go much ğrt, in every part, that when you went in, you was torced to begin a minuet puce, with an...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1853 - 382 pages
...and, by hook or crook, write another book, if I live and am here, another year. ." I have heard before of a room with a floor laid upon springs, and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with...
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The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence ..., Volume 2

William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1853 - 518 pages
...and by hook or crook, write another book, if I live and am here, another year. I have heard before, of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1853 - 520 pages
...upon fprings, and fuch like things, with fo much art, in every part, that when you went in you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, fwimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of date, in a figure of eight, without pipe or ftring...
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Town and Country: Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Within Us

John Stowell Adams - 1855 - 382 pages
...sense, and, by hook or crook, write another book, if I live and am here, another year. " I heard before of a room, with a floor laid upon springs, and such...much art, in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with...
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Lectures on the Life, Genius and Insanity of Cowper

George Barrell Cheever - 1856 - 430 pages
...hy hook or by crook, write another book, if I live and am here, another year. " I have heard before of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such...much art in every part, that when you went in, you was forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with...
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