Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket... Poems - Page 89by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
| Alexander Wallace - 1853 - 312 pages
...of glory about to be revealed. Turn to another scene, so beautifully described by Cowper : — " Ton cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 476 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 'And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
| William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 476 pages
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, A nd smother'd in 't at last, is praised to death Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
| William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd m't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content* though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 410 pages
...study the contrast to see where is the finger of God. It is well given by our great English poet : — "Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
| George Paxton Young - 1854 - 356 pages
...Christian cottager. After referring to the Frenchman's infidelity, he gives the opposite picture : — " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day... | |
| David Stow - 1854 - 586 pages
...passage from Scripture, and one from Cowper : — " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth ;" ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Ju«t knowi, and know* no more, her Bible's true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman* never... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 398 pages
...salvation of the guilty, the hope of the dying; the ornament, the dignity, the glory, of the human race. " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit; Just knows,... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1866 - 384 pages
...meanings ever rich and strange, Or lighten'd glory in the place. Gerald Massey. Content in lowly Sphere. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins, all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
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