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" Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn: Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy... "
The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith, and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors - Page 286
by Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 445 pages
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The Etonian, Volume 2

Walter Blunt, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1822 - 504 pages
...emphasis: — " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, aud all thy charing withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." Mr. Willis noticed my surprise. " I suspect," said he, " you are not aware of the classical neighbourhood...
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The Lady's Magazine and Museum, Volume 10

English literature - 1837 - 496 pages
...blood — and even to Oh ! I shall not meet Cazotte again with pleasure !'' CHAP. II. The Breakfcut. " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green." Deserted Village. Marie Antoinette, who, simple and we might add unprecedented in her tastes, had become...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, [fled. These were thy charms — But all these charms are William Hazlitt( chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern...
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The Etonian, Volume 3

1824 - 398 pages
...could not help observing was pronounced by my companion with peculiar feeling and emphasis : — " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." Mr. Willis noticed my surprise. " I suspect," said he, " you are not aware of the classical neighbourhood...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...charmi — But all these charnu are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sporte are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; .Amidst thy...seen* And Desolation saddens all thy green : One only muter grasps the whole domain. And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...eharms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy eharms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is...stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook refleets the day, But, ehok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest,...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn : Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens...stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook refleets the day, But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest,...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms, — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village ! loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the...
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Elegant Extracts: Consisting of larger poems

English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms arefled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs thy tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern...
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