 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...return, Or climb his kntes the envied kifs to (hare. How bow'd the woudi beneath their fturdy ftroke; Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys and deftiny ol:(rare; Nor grardeur heir with a dildainful (mile, The (hort and (irn;'le unnals of the pour. The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be 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 joys and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and desliny ohscure; Nor... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys', and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 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 bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor... | |
 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...share. VII. 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 ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure... | |
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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... 
