 And brought his youth with sorrow to the grave. I knew an aged swain, whose hoary head Was bent with years, the village chronicle, Who much had seen, and from the former times Much had received. He, hanging o'er the hearth In winter ev'nings, to the gaping...  Wood Leighton, Or, a Year in the Country - Page 38by Mary Botham Howitt - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1288 pages
...fubdu'd his manly prime, And brought kit youth with forrow to the grave. I knew an aged fwain, whofe hoary head Was bent with years, the village chronicle, Who much had feen, and from the former times Much'had rcceiv'd. He, hanging o'er the hearth In winter ev'nings,... | |
 | 1795 - 1334 pages
...fubdu'd his manly prime. And brought his youth with forrow to the grave. I knew an aged fwain, whofe hoary head Was bent with years, the village chronicle. Who much had feen, and from the former times Much'had receiv'd. He, hanging o'er the hearth Tn winter cv'nings,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...servilely copying, one of l the most finished pictures in Virgil. Scilicet et tetnpus vcniet, &c. &c. . I knew an aged Swain, whose hoary head Was bent with...much had seen, and from the former times Much had receiv'd. He, hanging o'er the hearth In winter-ev'nings, to the gaping swains And children circling... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...lov'd: Till love and grief subdued his manly prime, And brought his youth with sorrow to the grave. I knew an aged swain, whose hoary head Was bent with years, the village-chronicle, Who much had seen, and from the former time* '. Much had receiv'd. He, hanging o'er... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 346 pages
...loved : Till love and grief subdued his manly prime, And brought his youth with sorrow to the grave.— I knew an aged swain, whose hoary head Was bent with...swains, And children circling round the fire, would tell Stories of old, and tales of other times. Of Lomond and Levina he would talk; And how of old, in Britain's... | |
 | George W. Todd - Castles - 1824 - 84 pages
...if indeed it ever existed at all, is now entirely unknown. - " an aged swain, whose hoary head AVas bent with years, the Village Chronicle, Who much had seen, and, from the former times Much had receiv'd. He, hanging o'er the hearth, In winter evenings, to th' admiring swains, And children circling... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...pathetic ; — " a most interesting relic of his amiable feelings and fortitude." EXTRACT FROM LOCHLEVEN. I KNEW an aged swain, whose hoary head Was bent with years, the village-chronicle, Who much had seen, and from the former times Much had receiv'd. He, hanging o'er... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - Scotland - 1847 - 396 pages
...chronicle. He is supposed to be referred to in the poem of Lochleven, in the lines commencing, — " I knew an aged swain whose hoary head • Was bent with years, the village chronicle," etc. Of his mother we have no means of forming a judgment, and suspect that her character was not particularly... | |
 | Michael Bruce - 1865 - 334 pages
...lov'd ; Till love and grief subdu'd his manly prime, And brought his youth with sorrow to the grave. I knew an aged swain, whose hoary head Was bent with years, the village.chronicle, Who much had seen, and from the former times Much had received. He, hanging o'er... | |
 | Michael Bruce - Poets, Scottish - 1865 - 292 pages
...lov'd ; Till love and grief subdu'd his manly prime, And brought his youth with sorrow to the grave. I knew an aged swain, whose hoary head Was bent with years, the village-chronicle, Who much had seen, and from the former times Much had received. He, hanging o'er... | |
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