 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy eharms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,f And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; - [Supposed to allude to the number of Saints' days in Ireland, kept by he Roman Catholie peaenmry... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 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...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. Ko more the grassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...the political economy of Goldsmith in his Deserted Village was not wholly the work of imagination. Sweet smiling village ! Loveliest of the lawn, Thy...the tyrant's hand is seen And desolation saddens all the green, — One only master grasps thy whole domain. * * * * Where then, ah ! where shall poverty... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1855 - 590 pages
...Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn ! Thy sports are Bed, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation...saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the »hole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain : No more thy glassy brook reflects the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1855 - 632 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 Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is secn, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ! 3. Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : No more thy glassy... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 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...plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, Hut, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 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...Desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps tlie whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glussy brook reflects... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 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...withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,f And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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...reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst... | |
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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... 
