For 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 kiss to share. the english anthology - Page 89by T AGERTON - 1794Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke j How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokc i Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and. deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to (hare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield; Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their te;uns aticld ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrOke I C 3 Let Let not ambition mock their... | |
| 1792 - 112 pages
...fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to share. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield ; Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1036 pages
...fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kif» to lhare, Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How...their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their (lurdy ftrokH Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
| Scots poems - 1796 - 172 pages
...fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the Harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How...they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods be neath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joy, and deftiny... | |
| 1796 - 246 pages
...return, •Or climb his knees, the envied kifs to fhare. 7 Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield; Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive the teams a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke I Xet not ambition mock their ufeful... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1797 - 188 pages
...baifer, objet de leur envie. Oft' did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft' the itubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! 28 Let no Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys anddeftiny obfcure, Nor Grandeur... | |
| Thomas Gray - Elegiac poetry, English - 1798 - 130 pages
...broke ; t — — fqnilladi lontano CLe pais.'! giorno pianger, che fi muore. Dante, Purgat. 1. 8, How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! 18 Let not Ambition mock their ufefu! toil, Their homely ioys, and deftiny obfcure : Nor Grandeur... | |
| 1799 - 686 pages
...fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to ihare. * Oft did the harveft to the fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How...afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ttrokc '.' ' OtlXfTI TOÇ 3f Otffff VlOVITVöa 1ÎÇOÎ fu.'lî) OtxiG' OfjLVoÇwç Kíyv x c<jUAA*ÍLrs&... | |
| British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
...return, Or climb his knees the envy'd kil's to fhare. 24 • Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How...drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath iheir fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure... | |
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