| 1833 - 1056 pągines
...widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plasby 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." These things our insight to futurity... | |
| 1834 - 374 pągines
...matron, forc'd in age for bread To pick the brook, with mantling cresses spread. To pull her wintery faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain." endued with a property peculiar to poetry, — I mean s ich air arrangement of words as produce a continuation... | |
| Isabella Steward - 1834 - 532 pągines
...changed the colour of his destiny. He embarked for Italy from the nearest sea port, and Ileen was left " To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, " To seek her nightly shed and weep 1till morn." CHAPTER IV. Would you be slovenly and prodigal ? Or finical, precise, meihodical, And... | |
| 1834 - 340 pągines
...but nods in sable plumes, Adorns our hearse, and flatters on our tombs. Young. PREACHER. The Village. 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pągines
...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, iu age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from tho thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till mom ; She only left of all the harmless train, The... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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...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... | |
| 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... | |
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