 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
 | Septimus Sears - 1872 - 776 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 livelong day,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 132 pages
...teasing others, always teased, His only pleasure is to be displeased. 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,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pages
...latest breath, — And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. II. THE HUMBLE CHRISTIAN. 3. 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 thread about the livelong... | |
 | William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1872 - 264 pages
...their flattery with his latest breath, And, smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Yon eottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and eheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1873 - 244 pages
...Jesus." What it would do for the Queen, it does for the poorest subject. As Cowper puts it, — " Ton cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 264 pages
...you will be able to understand those lines of Cowper's in which he praises a poor lace-maker : — 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pages
..." the demigod Voltaire," how dexterously he shifts the note in the following touching passage ! ' ' 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 - 1874 - 330 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 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,... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...ev'ry 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 thread about the live-long day,... | |
 | George Henry Whittemore - 1876 - 336 pages
...also his Truth. Had we gone there we should have seen the same sight still perpetuated, of: — — '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,... | |
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