 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
 | John Thomson (Minister of Free St. George's, Paisley.) - 1876 - 250 pages
...whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen." GROUNDS OF FAITH; OR, THE REALITY OF THE BIBLE MIRACLES. " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just... | |
 | Maurice Lothian - 1876 - 316 pages
...give ; 'Tis done — the raging storm is heard no more — Mercy receives him on her peaceful shore. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door Pillow and bobbins, all her little store, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. She,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 pages
...Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left. Voltaire and the Lace-ivorter. — From ' Truth. ' Von s we store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | W. J. Humberstone - 1875 - 234 pages
...truth must be made a practical guide in life, and then indeed, " the truth shall make you free." " 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 live-long day,... | |
 | 1877 - 1212 pages
...travelling out of the sphere of direct scientific verification. It may thus be strictly true that " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store," may really be wiser and nearer to the truth than a philosopher. True, the inquiry we are now... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1878 - 292 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,... | |
 | sir John Robert L. Emilius Laurie (3rd bart.) - 1878 - 424 pages
...supplied, Lived long, wrote much, laugh'd heartily, and died.' In pointed contrast with whom — ' 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 live-long day,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...theft — Thyself removed, thy power to sooth me left. Voltaire and the Lace-worker. — From Truth.' 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 - 1880 - 826 pages
...theft — Thyself removed, thy power to sooth me left Voltaire and the Lace-worker. — From Truth? 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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