| Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 pages
...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! i •. J Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 680 pages
...bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb bis knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiuy obscure; Kur Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his kuees, the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, « Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...them from their iowly bed. For them no more the blazing1 hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife pl;ifher evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let'not ambition mock Iheir useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear,... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 236 LESSONS [PART 1. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...sturdy stroke Let not ambition mock their useful toil, k' Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 292 pages
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tiuklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...rouse them from their lowly bed. The swallow, twittering from the straw-built shed, For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! . How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Ns children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! -J* 170 THE AMERICAN READEU.^| Let not Ambition mock... | |
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