Pleas'd with thyself, whom all the world can please, How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire? Where shading elms along the margin grew, And... Poems, Plays and Essays - Stran 77avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 530 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 strani
...grew, And, freshen'd from the wave, the zephyr flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch, faultering still, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's...the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestick lore, Has frisk'd, beneath the burden of threescore. So bless'da life these thoughtless realms... | |
| Henry Redhead Yorke - 1804 - 390 strani
...Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleas'd with thyself, whom all the world can please ; Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze j : And the gay grand-sire, skill'd in gestic lore., Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore."... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 strani
...margin grew, And freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew : And haply, though my harsh touch, falt'ring still. But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's...skill ; Yet would the village praise my wond'rous pow'r, And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 strani
...margin grew, And freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew : And haply, tho' my harsh touch fault'ring still, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's...ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children thro* the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden... | |
| Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 472 strani
...flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch, faltVing stiH, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancers skill, Yet would the village praise my wond'rous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. * GOLDSMITH , thé travcllcr. Toujours à pied, toujours payant son écot en petits airs, Goldsmith... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 strani
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's fkill, Yet would the village praife my wond'rous pow'r, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour: Alike...their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandfire, fkill'd in geftic lore, Has frifk'd beneath the burthen of fourfcore. So bleft a life thefe... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...ages', dames of antieiit days Have led their children thro' the mirthful maze And tho pay grandsiro, - displa* Thus idly busy rolls their world away : Theirs are tltose arts that mind to mind endea For... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 strani
...margin grew, And freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch falt'ring still, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill; Yet would the village praise my woml'rous power. And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 strani
...margin grew, And freshen'd from the wave the zephyr flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch falt'ring still, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill ; Yet would the village praise my wonderous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 strani
...still, But mock'd all tune, and marrM the dancer's skill; Yet would the villagepraise my wond'rouspow'r, And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all...ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children thro' the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk' d beneath the burthen... | |
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