 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And Desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy...  The book of celebrated poems - Stran 164avtor: Book - 1854 - 448 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 strani
...Village was not wholly the work of imagination. Sweet smiling village ! Loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy...the tyrant's hand is seen And desolation saddens all the green, — One only master grasps thy whole domain. * * * * Where then, ah ! where shall poverty... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 590 strani
...Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn ! Thy sports are Bed, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation...saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the »hole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain : No more thy glassy brook reflects the... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 strani
...DESOLATING EFFECTS OF LAND-MONOPOLY OS THE VILLAGE. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports ting flow — There throw, nice-judging, the delusive...rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 strani
...charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn ! Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy...plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, Hut, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 strani
...charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy...Desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps tlie whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glussy brook reflects... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 strani
...lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,f And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; • [Supposed to allude to the number of Saints' days in Ireland, kept bj he Roman Catholic peasantry.]... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 strani
...village was both happy and productive, while the new condition is both unhappy and unproductive — One only master grasps the whole domain, And half...sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walk the lapwing flies And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. It would indeed be easy if the social... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 strani
...charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green. (lines 31-38) The semantic impoverishment is astonishing; not even nambypamby Philips wrote so simply... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 strani
...NoP; OAEL-1; PoEL-3; SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo 2 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports the sad and heavy line Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark; (1. 35-40) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1799-1832) The EH-King 1 "O father! O father! now, now, keep... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 strani
...charms — But all these charms are fled, Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy... | |
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