 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1785 - 526 pages
...pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanced weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The chearful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Shaggy and lean and flirew'd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1786 - 756 pages
...... . .j ^ , . Left ftorms fhould overfet the leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanced weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Staggy and lean and fhrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 230 pages
...leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'-d, The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe, And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, . From morn to eve, his foli-fary talk. - Shaggy, and lean, and fhrewd, with pointed... | |
 | William Cowper - 1787 - 346 pages
...leaning pile Deciduous,, or its own unhalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Shaggy, and lean, and fhrcwd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1788 - 376 pages
...leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd , The cheerful haunts of man, to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Shaggy, and lean, and fhrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1790 - 300 pages
...needlefs care Left ftorms fhould otrerfet the leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcerned The cheerful...man to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Shaggy, and lean, and fhrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1793 - 384 pages
...leaning pile Deciduous, or its oXvn unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man; to wield the axe And drive the wedge, in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Shaggy, and lean, and mrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1795 - 410 pages
...the leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man; to wield the axe And drive the wedge, in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Shaggy, and lean, and fhrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...the leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanc'd weight. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd The cheerful haunts of man; to wield the axe And drive...Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur — His dog attends him. Close behind his heel Now creeps... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1793 - 450 pages
...Ta/k ; the lines defcriptive of the fubjeft are thefe : " Forth goes the Woodman, leaving unconcera'd The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe, And drive the wedge in yonder foreft drear, From morn to eve his folitary tafk. Snaggy, and SIMM, and (hrewd, with pointed ears And... | |
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The cheerful haunts of man ; to wield the axe And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear, From morn to eve his solitary task. Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, His dog attends him. 
