 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 148 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... | |
 | 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 ,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...blazing hearth shalr burn, , Or buisy housewife ply her evening care.i . „ ,, . No children run to lisp their sire's r.eturn, Or climb his knees the...their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn .gltbe has broke : How jocund did they drive, their team afiuld ! How bow'd the woods beneath their... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 606 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 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,... | |
 | John Young - 1810 - 432 pages
...clarion, and the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. VI. 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. VII. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has... | |
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