| Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
| Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 Seiten
...more the blazing hearth shall burn', Or busy housewife* ply her evening core'; Nor childrenb run to lisp their sire's return', Or climb his knees', the...has broke'; How jocund" did they drive their team a-field'I How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke'! Let not ambition mock their useful toil',... | |
| John Richard Beste - 1839 - 656 Seiten
...them. Adieu ! for the present, I must take leave of you and your countrymen. As individuals you * " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke." GHAT. are, in England, all that a Cosmopolite could wish you to be: how different from what you shew... | |
| 1840 - 372 Seiten
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 7 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke 8 Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure Nor grandeur hear... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 Seiten
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| Book - 1841 - 164 Seiten
...morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 Seiten
...sedula partis aget : Non balbo proles gratabitur ore parenti, Curret in amplexus, prseripietve genas. 10 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
| 1856 - 1026 Seiten
...Elegy." which I hope all of you have read, has summed up such a life in a few lines, where he says, " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...; How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke t Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
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