| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1877 - 326 oldal
...what he could not make out 86 dispelled, drove away 88 'gan, began The rest in order, to the top ; For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. — Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete, As erst, with airy self-conceit,... | |
| New reader - 1879 - 392 oldal
...remain a mystery! The poet summed up the common experience, of even orderly people, when he said : — For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny hut the right. I Adjustment, a setting in order. - Feudal baron, a great landowner, who... | |
| William Cowper - 1879 - 88 oldal
...lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top ; For 'tis a truth well known to most, 95 That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit,... | |
| Helen A Hertz - 1879 - 292 oldal
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, \Ve seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1881 - 388 oldal
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order, to the top ; For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. — Forth skipp'd the Cat, not now replete, As erst, with airy self-conceit,... | |
| William Cowper - 1881 - 680 oldal
...truth well known to most That whatsoever thing is lost. We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipped the cat, not now replete As erst with airy self-conceit. .* V Nor in her own fond apprehension (A theme for all the world's attention, But modest, sober, cured... | |
| Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 418 oldal
...'gan in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order to the top. 95 For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. Forth skipp'd the cat, not now replete 100 As erst with airy self-conceit,... | |
| Edmund Arthur Helps - 1882 - 262 oldal
...in haste the drawers explore, The lowest first, and without stop The rest in order, to the top; 90 For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever...thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. —Forth skipped the cat, not now replete, As erst, with airy self-conceit,... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 oldal
...Hope. Line 211. The son of parents passed into the skies. A. Un Kffeipt of My Mother's Picture. 'Tie a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost; We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right: i. The Ketired Cat. Line 95. Virtue and vice had boundaries in old time,... | |
| Douglas Veitch - 1882 - 394 oldal
...March 8. Do what is right, quite irrespective of what people will say or think. — Epictetus, It is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. — Cowper. Naethin' comes fairer to light, than what has been long hidden.... | |
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