 | John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...care ; 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her even'inj-care : US Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - Charity - 1815 - 376 pages
...care; No children run to lisp :heir sire s return; ' Or climb his knees the envied kiss te share 134 Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! Howbow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.' Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 446 pages
...unies au pie des Pirenn&es." Boileau, Epitre i. 146. • Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How...stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; SO Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1820 - 434 pages
...shrill clarion or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly btd. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...them from their iowly bed. For them no more the blazing1 hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife pl;ifher evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let'not ambition mock Iheir useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 236 LESSONS [PART 1. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...sturdy stroke Let not ambition mock their useful toil, k' Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum. 1 How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, 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... 
