...were amidst the surrounding scenes, hesays : — " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, <Jr busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broku . How jocund did Ihey drive their team a-field! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke....

...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,...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-fleld ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil,...

...incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from her straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or thff echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely...

...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 6. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 8. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur...

...the compliment of imitating these verses (G. 2. 523-4), and so, in turn, did 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. (Elegy written in a country Church Tard 21-4) 894 iam iam mm ' never again'. This is an unusual...

...mourning. Men say of the dead — to use Gray's paraphrase of these very lines — ' " 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 : " but they do not add that for all these things the desire will have passed away ; and they...

...Elegy, from which Gray's poor have been banished, of course, since they are dead: 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. (21-24) In Yearsley's peasant household, people read - not tracts or homiletic verse, but...

...Horace (Odes 2.14.2122) uses Lucretius' passage, as does Thomas Gray in his Elegy: 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. But what is rueful in these poets, as they contemplate death ending life, becomes joyful...

...shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team af1eld! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their...

...rouse them from their lowly bed. 10 For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their...share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, 25 Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How...