 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: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ... - Page 67by William Cowper - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1856 - 1026 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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...every side, He hegs 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 livelong day,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...Lace-worker.] Yon cottager, who weave« at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; and surprise When a skeleton's head was exposed ! All present then uttered lire-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...Voltaire and the poor cottager, are exquisite pieces of eloquence and poetry, particularly the last: " 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 Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...wasted oil unprofitably burns, like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. THE LACE-WORKER AND VOLTAIRE. 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 Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...Voltaire and the poor cottager, are exquisite pieces of eloquence and poetry, particularly the last : " 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,... | |
 | David Stow - 1846 - 562 pages
...Scripture, and one from Cowper;— " Knowledge puft'eth up, but charity edifieth." (buildeth up.) " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible's true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman * never knew... | |
 | 1846 - 634 pages
...life cternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast eent." " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not eay— * * * * * » Just knows, and knows no more,... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...devise, as the order of the universe is superior to the greatest efforts of man's artificial skill. " 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 - 1847 - 556 pages
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Von 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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