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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... "
Poems and Letters of Thomas Gray: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings - Page 492
by Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 527 pages
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Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 468 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their 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...
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,...woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition raock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful...
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A Step from the New World to the Old, and Back Again: With ..., Volume 1

Henry Philip Tappan - Europe - 1852 - 318 pages
...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their 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...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 6. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - 1853 - 384 pages
...return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, as Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How...sturdy stroke. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; so Var. V. 24. Or] Nor. Ms. W. V. 25. Sickle] Sickles. Ms....
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...the harvest to their sickle yielt/,; | Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe1 has bro&e.; | How jocunc? did they drive their team afield'! | How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy strode, ! | • L&nd'skip ; not lind'sklp. b Hai'wlf. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, | Their...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...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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The book of celebrated poems

Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath the'r sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;...
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The pleasures of hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other poems. To which are ...

Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 278 pages
...run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his kuccs the envied kiss to share. - squilln di lontano How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke! Let not Ambition...
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