 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke I Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor, The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | 1785 - 304 pages
...Their furrow oft the flubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teem afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deRiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmite, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor.... | |
 | English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...their teem afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufcful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The Ihort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of.heraldry, the pomp of pow'r... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield. ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition...joys, and deftiny obfcure Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful frnile, The fliort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...broke j How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokc i Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and. deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile,. The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power,.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 428 pages
...their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokcf Let not ambition mock their nfcfal toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The lhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...jocund did they drive their te;uns aticld ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrOke I C 3 Let ps attend ; Warm Charity, the general friend, With...Jufticc, to hcrielf fevete, And Pity, dropping foft th difdainful fmile The Ihort and fimplc annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition...joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The short and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy flroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; 30 Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1794 - 300 pages
...WILLIAM CREECH, EDINBURGH. CHIEFLY SCOTTISH. THE corr E R'S SATURDAY NIGHT. INSCRIBED TO R. A****. ESQj Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys and deftiny olfcure ; jVor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful finile, Thejhortbutjimple annals of the Poor. GRAY.... | |
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Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke. 
