 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pàgines
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matrou, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...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... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1820 - 322 pàgines
...of her own mishaps, which were indeed of the most piteous kind, such as had doomed her in age— " To strip the brook, with mantling cresses spread;...thorn; To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn." At another time, and Mrs. Stovendale, but too susceptible, would have lent a patient as well as a pitying... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pàgines
...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...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smilM, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pàgines
...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where o»ce the garden smiled; And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn... | |
 | 1821 - 658 pàgines
...in the proudest assemblies. And, above all, startlingly true, beneath my feet was .. . • .1 -- " Yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild.". , A painting from the life could not be more exact. The stubborn currant-bush lifts its head above... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pàgines
...hand, than mingle in the proudest assemblies. And, above all, startlingly true, beneath my feet was " Yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." A painting from.the life could not be more exact. The stubborn currant-bush lifts its head above the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pàgines
...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 disclose,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pàgines
...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses...weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless tram, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And... | |
 | English poetry, William Fordyce Mavor - 1823 - 502 pàgines
...mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Near yonder copse, where 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... | |
 | F. Campbell - 1824 - 440 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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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... 
