 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pągines
...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...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. <2) (1) [Sir Joshua Reynolds from this passage took the idea of his painting of ' Resignation,' of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pągines
...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...the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain/4) (1) [Sir Joshua Reynolds from this passage took the idea of his painting of ' Resignation,'... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 pągines
...wretehed matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly...The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder eopse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pągines
...widow'd, 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 5 To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pągines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pągines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pągines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...the harmless train. The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild... | |
 | 1840 - 544 pągines
...widow'd 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, To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn; The sad historian... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pągines
...engraving of the Cattage and the Widowed Matron, " who strip't the brook with mantling cresses spread :" " She only left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain." caught the public taste at once. Griffin gave fifty pounds first, but on the whole impression selling... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 378 pągines
...forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
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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... 
