 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 strani
...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 strani
...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! i •. J Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Albin Joseph U. Hennet - 1806 - 458 strani
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care; No children run to. lisp :their sire's return , Or climb his knees the...glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afiekl! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful rtoil ,... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 strani
...their sire's return. Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their-sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;...bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not amhition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and desliny ohscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 strani
...envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn E»k>be has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield!...sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...them no more the blazing earth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Nor children run to eat! Can man, weak man, thy pow'r defeat? ' Gold banish'd...the name behind; Gold sow'd the world with ev'ry ill teams afield! How bo'w'd the w-oods beneath their sturdy stroke ; Let not ambition mock their useful... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 strani
...clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. Por them no more the hla/ing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening...broke! How jocund did they drive their team afield! Howbow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Lft not Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 strani
...hurn, No more shall rouse them from their luv\ly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Ur busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team atield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 strani
...bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb bis knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiuy obscure; Kur Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 strani
...busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his kuees, the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, « Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife... 
