 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pàgines
...— forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, THE DESERTED VILLAGE. To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek...where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild — There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's... | |
 | Alexander Allen - 1845 - 170 pàgines
...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plushy springl She, wretched matron ! forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. ADVERBS. 164. An Adverb is a word joined to a Verb, an Adjective, or an Adverb, to qualify it, or to... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pàgines
...widowed, solitary thins, 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 fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1846 - 310 pàgines
...sleep-fetter'd pillow restore Our day-sport, distorted but pleasing, once more. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd* And still where many a garden flower grows wdd; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose^ The village preacher's modest mansion rose.... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 pàgines
...widow' d solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; The wretched matron forced in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. GOLDSMITH. THE FORCE OF PRAYER; OR, THE FOUNDING OF BOLTON PRIORY. & iTratnlion. " WHAT is good for... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 pàgines
...widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; The wretched matron forced in age for bread To strip the brook with mantling cresses...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. GOLDSMITH. THE FORCE OF PRAYER; ' " ' OR, THE FOUNDING OF BOLTON PRIORY. a SraiJttton. And their meaning... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pàgines
...wintry fngot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep til] morn ; She only left of all tne harmless train; The sad historian of the 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 disclose,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, fore'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 428 pàgines
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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... 
