...by objecting to the disproportion between his ideas and facts : — A robin redbreast in a cage Pufs all heaven in a rage; A dove-house filled with doves...and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions; A game cock clipped and armed for fight Doth the rising sun affright. This is rather a wild way of saying...

...pearls of its tender humanities : — ' A Robin-red-breast — in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin...misused upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain doth tear ; A sky-lark wounded on the wing Doth...

...And a heavn in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage ; A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders hell thro' all its regions ; A dog starved at his master's gate...

...Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour. " A robin redbreast in a cage, Puts all hearen in a rage ; A dove-house, filled with doves and pigeons,...Shudders hell through all its regions; A dog starved at hia master's gate, Predicts the ruin of the State ; A game-cock clipped and armed for fight, Doth the...

...of your hand, And Eternity in an hour." We have* only room to give a few selections : — " A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage ; A...misused upon the road Calls to Heaven for human blood ; A skylark mounted on the wing Doth make a cherub cease to sing ; The child's toys and the old man's...

...Eternity in an hoar." We have only room to give a few selections : — " A robin redbreast in a Cage Put-* all heaven in a rage ; A dove-house filled with doves...misused upon the road Calls to Heaven for human blood ; A skylark mounted on the wing Roth make a cherub cease to sing ; The child's toys and the old man's...

...a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions. L A dog starved at his master's...

...patient sympathy to interpret it. I subjoin half-a-dozen lines from the Auguries of Innocence : A Robin red-breast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage ; A dove-house full of doves and pigeons Shudders Hell through all its regions ; A skylark wounded on the wing Doth...

...heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons Shudders hell through all its regions. L A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. A horse misused upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare, A fibre...

...tender fathers were ready to declare it the finest sport in the world. Blake indignantly wrote — " A game-cock clipped and armed for fight, Doth the rising sun affright." Yet Professor Wilson (Christopher North), also a Christian poet, wrote of cock-fightingwith enthusiasm,...