| Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 pages
...useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...the envied kifs to ifhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the 1'tubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy lirokc ? Let not ambition mock their ufefnl toil, Their homely... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 542 pages
...the envied kifs to fliarc. Oft did the han-ell to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the (tubborn glebe has broke ! How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How Ixw'd the woods beneath their fturdy drake l Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has 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... | |
| Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...ihe envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has 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... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 508 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harvefl to their fickle yield. Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ilroke ! * — " frjttillaat lonlaito Ce faia Ч ficria fiangcr,... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield , Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : 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... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their flurdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Thejr homely... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be has 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 joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
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