 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...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...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | George B. Scott - 1842 - 354 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...wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave."— GHAT. IT was one of those May mornings, which to fully... | |
 | Readings - English poetry - 1843 - 466 pages
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle 4 yield, Their furrow 5 oft the stubborn glebe 6 has broke; How jocund' did they drive their team a-field! How...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure: Nor Grandeur hear" with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 298 pages
...their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure, Nor Grandeur hcar with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor, The boast of...wealth, e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead to the grave. Nor you, ye Proud ! impute to these the fault. If Mem'ry o'er... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...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...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 pages
...33. " Very like," says the editor, (in a note to the Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor. The boast of...e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. 35 The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 35 Their furrow oft the .stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How...strOke . Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; .*i Var. V. 24. Or] Nor. Ms. W. V. 25. Sickle] Sickles. Ms.... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...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...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! The boast of Heraldry, the pomp of Pow'r, And all...Wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Mem'ry o'er... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe ha^ broke : How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
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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... 
