 | Bennett George Johns - 1847 - 216 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pągines
...example: But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; .... | |
 | Donna Landry, Professor Donna Landry - 1990 - 344 pągines
...fall adown, adown, adown!] (John Gay, The Shepherd's Week) She, wretched matron, forced, in age, tor bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,...the harmless train. The sad historian of the pensive plain.2 (Oliver. Goldsmith. The Deserted On those occasions when the laboring woman has appeared in... | |
 | Ian McGowan - 1990 - 622 pągines
...solitary thing 130 That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling* cresses...thorn, To seek her nightly shed and weep till morn; 135 She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse,... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pągines
...speaker encounters an old beggar-woman, who evidently reminds him of the real people who have gone: "She only left of all the harmless train, / The sad historian of the pensive plain" (lines 135 - 36). This last line is the key and was early recognized as such, being chosen for illustration... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 pągines
...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. 80 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild.... | |
 | Sean Dunne - 1957 - 496 pągines
...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...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,... | |
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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... 
