 | Robert Lloyd - 1774
...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 fturdy ftroke ! Has propter vctercs ulmos, taxique fub umbra1 Qua putris... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1786
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the barveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their fturciy ftroke \ Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys and deftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1778 - 158 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 fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 204 pages
...the envied kifs to lhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath theirfturdyftroke! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys,... | |
 | English poetry - 1781
...knees the envy'd kifs to mare. 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 fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Young - 1783 - 90 pages
...envied kifs to fharc. VII. 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 fturdy ftroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their... | |
 | Agostino Isola - 1784
...knees the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to the fickle yield, Their furrow oft the flubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 225 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did their harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke I Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 386 pages
...the envy'd 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 fturdy ftroke ! The rural day is here moft beautifully depidted : the... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 405 pages
...knees the envied blifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, The furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let no ambition mock their ufeful toil. Their homely... | |
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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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe... 
