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" My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away, That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case. "
Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ... - Page 309
by William Cowper - 1836
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 1

William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...be here, They are upon the road. The calender right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house went in :...flow'd behind, A hat not much the worse for wear. Kadi comely in its kind. He held them up, and in his turn Thus show'd his ready wit, My head is twice...
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The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns].

Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...here — They are upon the road." The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house went in ;...flow'd behind ; A hat not much the worse for wear He held them np, and, in his torn, Thus shewed his ready wit : " My head U twice as big as yours, They...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...be here, They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house went in ;...straight he came with hat and wig; A wig that flow'd bebind, A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in its kind. He held them up, and in his turn...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...here — They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Returned e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctri flowed behind, A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in its kind. He held them up, and in...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...here — They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Returned him not a single word, But to the house went in. Whence straight he came with hat and wig ; A wig that flowed behind, A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in its kind. He held them up, and in...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...here — They are upon the road." The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Returned him not a single word, But to the house went in ;..."Whence straight he came with hat and wig; A wig that flowed behind, A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in its kind. He held them up, and in...
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...— " They are upon the road." The callender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house went in ; Whence strait he came with hat and wig ; — A wig that flow'd behind, — A hat not much the worse for wear...
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Poems of William Cowper, Esq., with a New Memoir: Compiled from Johnson ...

William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...be here, They are upon the road. The calender right glad lo find His friend in merry pin, Return' d him not a single word, But to the house went in: Whence...A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in ita kind. He held them up, and in its turn Thus show'd his ready wit, My head is twice as big as yours,...
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Poems, with a memoir of the author

William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...be here, They are upon the road. The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Return'd him not a single word, But to the house went in ; Whence straight he came with hat and w,g; A wig that flow'd behind, A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in its kind. He held...
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The Primary School Reader: Designed for the First Class in Primary ..., Part 3

William Draper Swan - 1844 - 184 pages
...here — They are upon the road." The calender, right glad to find His friend in merry pin, Returned him not a single word, But to the house went in. Whence straight he came with hat and wig — A wig that flowed behind, A hat not much the worse for wear, Each comely in its kind. He held them up, and, in...
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