| George Merriam - 1828 - 282 páginas
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Ns children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! -J* 170 THE AMERICAN READEU.^| Let not Ambition mock... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - 1828 - 492 páginas
...of great feeling and simplicity. The following is from the pathetic muse of Gray : For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. " The two last lines are very nearly a verbal translation. The next imitation, to which I... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 páginas
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow, twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 páginas
...villageois, ancêtres du hameau. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn , The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed , The cock's shrill clarion,...Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield , Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow' d the... | |
| Timothy Flint - 1829 - 182 páginas
...prospect that it would be, was a source of serious apprehension to them. CHAPTER III. " For him no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share." To meet these evils they had one grand resource beside religion. We would to God that every... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...busy housewife ply her eyeuiug care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb lu .( kuees s it to be found but iu the finest of our soils. At...companion the famous Jonathan Swift, who retained no a-fleld 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
| Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 páginas
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 6. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 páginas
...more the blazing hearth shall bum', Or busy housewife* ply her evening care'; Nor children'' run to lisp their sire's return', Or climb his knees', the...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke'; How jocund0 did they drive their team a-field'! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke'. Let not... | |
| 1836 - 558 páginas
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor; Let not Ambition... | |
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