...to tire each other down, The swain mistrnstless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place, The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms...

...to tire each other down, The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place, The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; Sweet smiling village,...

...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village...

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...labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: Still, as in Thomson, under that hawthorn ! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. But the sweet succession is in fact a series of literary reminiscences: a dissolving...

...to tire each other down, The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place, The bashful virgin's side-long looks...that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms . . . (lines 9-31) We notice first the continual syntactic expansion. Goldsmith begins with two items...

...face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place; The bashful virgin's side-long looks oflove, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove;...village; sports like these With sweet succession taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers thy chearful influence shed, These were thy charms —...

...to tire each other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. 30 These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil...

...The bashful virgin's side-long looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove! 30 These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms —...

...his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong look of love, The matron's glance that would those looks...village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms —...