 | George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 pages
...and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear...toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil. 9. Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes; With... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, nie feasts though small, He seea l ' is little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear...vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Kach wish contracting, fits him to the soil. Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear...soil. Cheerful, at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep, Or drives his... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear...bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, tits him for the soil: Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...1'eaets though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; SVes no contiguous palace rear its bead, F. No ; quite the contrary ; their abuse is, in fact, the best panegyric ; I like it of all thing loath his vegetable meal ; ' Bat calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, hia feasts though incalí, lie sees his little Tin want that makes my cheek so pale. Yet 1 mealiness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make hirn loath his vegetable... | |
 | James Johnson - Ireland - 1844 - 406 pages
...well as in its metropolis, the hopeless, the listless, the heartless peasant and pauper, " Sees the contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed." — It would require philosophy — and " something more," to convince the sufferers or even the bye-standers,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 426 pages
...and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear...soil. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes ; With patient angle trolls the finny deep, Or drives his... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 634 pages
...and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear...bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting iits him to the soil. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1901 - 458 pages
...meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loath his vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in ignorance...soil. Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes ; With patient, angle trolls the finny deep ; Or drives... | |
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Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed... 
