 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling...  Poems, Plays and Essays - Pàgina 24per Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 384 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alison GARD - 1870 - 278 pàgines
...melancholy intonation of voice, that but too surely expressed conviction of its truth. CHAPTER IX. " Around thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain, Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling,... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pàgines
...loveliest of the lawn. Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen And desolation saddens all thy greed; One only master grasps the whole domain And half a tillage stints thy smiling pain. . . . And trembling shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pàgines
...like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green. (lines 31-38) The semantic impoverishment is astonishing; not even nambypamby Philips wrote so simply... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pàgines
...scene. (1. 1—8) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; LiTB; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; PoEL-3; SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo 2 eCePo; SeCP; SeCV-1; WGRP The Timber 29 But thou beneath...Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark; (1. 35-40) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1799-1832) The EH-King 1 "O father! O father! now, now, keep... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pàgines
...like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pàgines
...remitting,' and 'toil taught to please,' 'succeeding sports,' and 'sports with sweet succession.' V. 35. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 pàgines
...like these, With sweet succession taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all...domain,'' And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; 7 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choaked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 pàgines
...founded largely by Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and redolent with nostalgia for a vanished past: Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all the thy green:36 There are many points of contact between this and Morgan's record of demolished public... | |
 | Charles Quest-Ritson - 2003 - 302 pàgines
...were uncommon, but attracted much hostile criticism, above all in Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village': Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the... | |
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