 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...climb his knees, 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...words as they do wot clearly understand. " Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; Ho"W jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Thefe three last stanzas point out the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...climb his knees 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... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...Or climb hisjcnees 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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...Or climb his knees 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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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... 
