 | 1845 - 614 pàgines
...swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance...village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, tujght e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pàgines
...hand a naked sword he held : He cheer'd the dogs to follow lier who^erf. Drijdcn. Theodore and Hono \a These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like...succession, taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms — but all these charms brefled. Goldsmith.... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 354 pàgines
...While secret laughter tittered round the place' ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love' ; 30 The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove'...These were thy charms', sweet village' ; sports like these1, With sweet succession', taught e'en toilv to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful... | |
 | 1846 - 532 pàgines
...And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round, These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like...With sweet succession taught e'en toil to please. The Squire of course will not think it enough to permit or patronise a restoration of holy-days and... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 pàgines
...swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, VVhile secret laughter tittered round the place, The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's 'glance that would those looks reprove. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. There, as... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pàgines
...labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: Still, as in Thomson, under that hawthorn ! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. But the sweet succession is in fact a series of literary reminiscences: a dissolving of the lives and... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 pàgines
...face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, 30 The matron's glance that would those looks reprove....village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms -... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pàgines
...swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place, The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love, The matron's glance...that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms . . . (lines 9-31) We notice first the continual syntactic expansion. Goldsmith begins with two items... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pàgines
...swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. 30 These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pàgines
...satiric modes circling repetitions for the lost pastoral society ('These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, / These were thy charms - But all these charms are fled', lines 33-4) moving to ironic contrasts and inversions for the present scene ('Where wealth accumulates,... | |
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The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove, — These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence... 
