 | 1800 - 322 pàgines
...gale: . No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled, All but yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pàgines
...steps the. grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pàgines
...the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled:.... All but yon widow 'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pàgines
...steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled. All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy...brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left, of all the harmless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pàgines
...steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled ; All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pàgines
...steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled, All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. To pick her wint'ry faggot... | |
 | 1808 - 694 pàgines
...Reflect, and think ho* many pine in want and wretchedness '. — Think how many > - < ' Fore'd in ajce, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick the wint'ry fagot from the thorn, To seek the nightly shed, and weep till monr!* As I pursued my walk... | |
 | Edward Mangin - 1808 - 240 pàgines
...site of his school-house; and * Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, *' The wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread;" * (and to this day the brook and ditches * * near the spot where her cabin stood ' abound with cresses)... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly brnd beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron ! forc'd - stck her nightly shed, and vreep till morn , She or.ly left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
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All but yon widowed, solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, — forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread... 
