 | 1792 - 112 pages
...ftrip the brook with mantling crefTes fpread , To pick her wint'ry faggot from the thorn , To feek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left of all the harmlefs train, The fad hiftorian of the penfive plain. NEAR yonder copfe where once the garden fmil'd,... | |
 | 1795 - 432 pages
...plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. ****** The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many poor supply'd ; Space for his kke, his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...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... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden sm i I'd , And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1800 - 286 pages
...deserted Village; et peut-être ne sera-t-on pas fâché de trouver ici les vers du poëte anglois. « Near yonder copse where once the garden smil'd, « And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; n There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose 2 n The village preacher's modest mansion rose.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...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 - 1806 - 248 pages
...matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and...of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once a garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...God, from bliss, and tbee, My own tormentor let me be, THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. BY r.MLI'SMTTir. NEA n yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flow'r grows wild; There, where a ftw torn shruhs the place disclose, The village preacher's... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, And seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only...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... | |
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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... 
