 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return,...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1804 - 224 pages
...flitts by on leathern wing, " Or where the beetle winds " His small but sullen horn." No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return , Jj DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. Book vij. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, €)r busy housewife ply her ev'ning care, No children run to lisp their sire's return,...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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 456 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. Por them no more the hla/ing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children...broke! How jocund did they drive their team afield! Howbow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Lft not Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...hurn, No more shall rouse them from their luv\ly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Ur busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team atield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sires return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share....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 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 more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to... 
