 | Dustin Griffin - 2005 - 332 pàgines
...wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. (lines 128-32, 135-36) Like the poet, she is a "sad historian," her link with a protector broken. The... | |
 | William Patten - 2003 - 548 pàgines
[ El contingut d’aquesta pàgina està restringit ] | |
 | 1957 - 208 pàgines
[ El contingut d’aquesta pàgina està restringit ] | |
 | Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 pàgines
[ El contingut d’aquesta pàgina està restringit ] | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 568 pàgines
...the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook, with manthng cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Her name was Catherine Geraghty. Widow (The), courted by Sir Hudibras, was the relict of Amminadab... | |
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She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the... 
