| William Cowper - 1889 - Počet stránok 632
...Receives the morsel; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unqucuchcd The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
| William Cowper - 1891 - Počet stránok 204
...Receives the morsel; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquenched The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
| Julian Hawthorne - 1902 - Počet stránok 474
...Receives the morsel; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquenched The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
| William Cowper, Alice Meynell - 1904 - Počet stránok 440
...Receives the morsel—flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or at best of cock purloin'd From his accustom'd perch. Hard-faring race! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquench'd The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 916
...Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquenched The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags and shows... | |
| William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 920
...Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquenched The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags and shows... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1921 - Počet stránok 626
...Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloined From his accustomed perch. Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquencl The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - Počet stránok 580
...Receives the morsel—flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or at best of cock purloin'd From his accustom'd perch. Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquench'd The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
| Gerald M. MacLean, Donna Landry, Joseph P. Ward - 1999 - Počet stránok 280
...rural commoner turning into something else: like the deracinated commoner on the road, the Gypsy's is a "Hard-faring race! / They pick their fuel out of every hedge, / Which, kindled with dry leaves, just saves unquenched the spark of life." 7 On the other hand, the anti-Semitic stereotype of the Jewish... | |
| Jane Austen - 2004 - Počet stránok 458
...Receives the morsel; flesh obscene of dog, Or vermin, or, at best, of cock purloin'd From his accustom'd perch. Hard-faring race! They pick their fuel out of every hedge, Which, kindled with dry leaves just saves unquench'd The spark of life. The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags, and shows... | |
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