 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...probably in the line — " The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool." Another natural object — "The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age, and whispering lovers made," was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...vol. iii. p. 250, edit. IS34. See also Life, ch. xix.] How often have I bless'd the coming day,(1) When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...probably in the line — " The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool." Another natural object — " The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made," was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...probably in the line — " The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool." Another natural object — " The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made," was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1837 - 572 pages
...probably in the line— ' The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool.' " Another natural object— ' The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age, and whispering lovers made,' was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 786 pages
...conjured up a more beautiful picture of the hawthorn, than Goldsmith in his Deserted Village : — " The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made." The custom of going a Maying, that is, going out early in the morning of the 1st of May to gather bunches... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,...turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade. The... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,...turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, -.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighh'ringhill, s, and call it a curiosity, free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ¡ While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade,...age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from... | |
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How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old... 
