| John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 pages
...plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed: Dear lovely bowers of innocence...and ease! Seats of my youth, when every sport could please1 How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene1 How often... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...GOLDSMITH. SWEET Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...green, Where -humble happiness endeared each scene ; How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing... | |
| John Mather Austin - 1847 - 414 pages
...depart ! *l How often have I loitered o'er the green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ; How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that crowned the neighbormg hill." In coming to a decision upon the question of residence in the city or... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd: young musicians began their usual concert. loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...plenty cheered the laboring swain : Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed; Dear, lovely bowers of innocence...green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How ii'icii have I paused on every charm ! — The sheltered cot ; the cultivated farm ; The never-failing... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 490 pages
...seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bovvers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every...I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, — The shelter'd cot, — the cultivated... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...had been his second morning's work ; and when Cooke entered his chamber he read them to him aloud. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every... | |
| Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...had been his second morning's work ; and when Cooke entered his chamber he read them to him aloud. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every... | |
| John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...had been his second morning's work ; and when Cooke entered his chamber he read them to him aloud. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed j Dear, lovely bowers of innocence and ease, 35 Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,...green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, — • The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing... | |
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