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" For 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 envied kiss to share. "
Favourite English poems and poets - Page 299
by English poems - 1870 - 672 pages
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray LL.B., Late Professor of Modern Languages ...

Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 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 envied...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely...
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The Poetical Works: Of Thomas Gray, ... with Some Account of His Life and ...

Thomas Gray - 1800 - 302 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 envied...yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear...
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...Geo. ii. 523. and the elegiac Muse of Gray has imbibed the very spirit of the Roman: 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. Thomson has thus depicted circumstances of a congenial nature : Jri vain for him the officious...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...refreshing. Cock's shrill clarion, — or trumpet. Echoing horn — of the huntsman. vI. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,' Or busy housewife...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. Housewife — properly means the wife, who v. who takts care of the lioflse : it sometimes...
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The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by ...

Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 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 envied...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! i •. J Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 3

Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 pages
...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...glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afiekl! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful rtoil ,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...them no more the blazing earth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to eat! Can man, weak man, thy pow'r defeat? ' Gold banish'd...the name behind; Gold sow'd the world with ev'ry ill teams afield! How bo'w'd the w-oods beneath their sturdy stroke ; Let not ambition mock their useful...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...clarion, or the echoing 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...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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

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,...
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A criticism on the Elegy written in a country church yard. Being a ...

John Young - 1810 - 266 pages
...care j No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. VII. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur...
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