 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pàgines
...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, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 2006 - 732 pàgines
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 | Judith Broome - 2007 - 204 pàgines
...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...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. (131—37) Although Goldsmith designates her the "historian," she is a historian who does not write... | |
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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... 
