| Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 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... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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 BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 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... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 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 ! Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor;... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1839 - 166 pages
...joyeux, vu. 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 ! VII. VIII. /i/iís кáтeo f\KfT, a\aCóvfs, &aа firóvaiтav OÙK àvóvifтa, Kотла... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 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 ; The... | |
| English periodicals - 1883 - 1120 pages
...and Somerville's, or such prose as Fielding's, Goldsmith's, and Smollett's ! VOL. XIII.— No. 73. DD 'How jocund did they drive their team afield ! .' ' , . .. . ; How bow'd the woods benoath their sturdy stroke ! ,...'' If jo that mass of toiling, daring, hearty, simple life, we think... | |
| Richard D. Brown - History - 1991 - 385 pages
...Church-yard": 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... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 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... | |
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