 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 strani
...undiscovered : Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things. In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Philip Metcalfe... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 strani
...undiscovered: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." Tn the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr, Phillip Metcalfe... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 strani
...undiscovered : " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 17"-', when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Phillip Mctealfe... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 strani
...undiscovered: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Phillip Metcalfe... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 612 strani
...these lines: " Verse sweeu.n, toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of thin;." '." 1 thought I had heard these lines before. JOHNSON. " I fancy not, sir; for they are in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 614 strani
...also : — ' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.' What singing is to ' the spinners and the knitters in the sun,' or rather what it used to be, (for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 strani
...: — ' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; • Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.' What singing is to ' the spinners and the knitters in the sun,' or or rather what it used to be, (for... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 strani
...these lines : " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; friend in his carriage with him. Charles Townshend...him, but told him, ' You must find somebody to br JOHKSON. " I fancy not, sir; for they are in a detached poem, the name of which I do not remember,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 348 strani
...undiscovered : — *' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Philip Metcalfe... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 strani
...a great wheel. Boswell thought he had heard the lines hefore. " I fancy not, sir," said Johnson ; " for they are in a detached poem, the name of which...not remember, written by one Giffard, a parson.*' The poem is said, in a note of Malone's, to have been hitherto undiscovered. reception to both causes... | |
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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitude of things. 
