| John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - English language - 1848 - 56 pages
...clarion, or the echoing horn, — No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed 1 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share ! Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke.... | |
| William Russell - 1848 - 94 pages
...stood still, and Nature made a pause, An awful pause, prophetic of her end.' Slow. ' For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share.' Moderate. 'If the relation of sleep to night, and, in some instances, its converse, be real,... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...Each in his narrow cell forever laid, — The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share." 2. Solemnity and Sublimity combined. MILTON'S INVOCATION OF LIGHT. "Hail! holy Light, —... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...heap,Each in his narrow cell forever laid, — The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share." 2. Solemnity and Sublimity combined. MILTON'S INVOCATION OF LIGHT. "Hail! holy Light, —... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
| Salem Town - Readers - 1850 - 374 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 6. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;... | |
| Thomas O'Donoghue - 1850 - 204 pages
...and fame of human depravity will bewail the transgressions of youthful days. — " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share." I find, on balancing the will of the understanding, few thoughts in effect more practical... | |
| Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 532 pages
...Elegy," (and that a favourite one with most readers,) is taken from Lucretius — " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share." At the commencement of the most beautiful but most melancholy argument on the folly of considering... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more xol*Hol* $l* to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
| William Chambers - Children's poetry - 1851 - 200 pages
...swallow twittering from her straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...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 glebe has broke... | |
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