How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed... Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography - Page 35by Washington Irving - 1868 - 427 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd; The dancing... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mjrthful band inspir'd; The dancing... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending, as the old survey 'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round. And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired : The dancing... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...pastime circled in the shade. The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The dancing... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; VOL. in. H And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd. Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd; The dancing... | |
| 1811 - 572 pages
...train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round, was now to be seen nothing but stripped walls and smoking ruins ; not an article of furniture, not... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolic'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round; And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd. Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The dancing... | |
| 1814 - 310 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went rouiwf. And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...spreading tree; While many a pastime circled in the shade—- The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired: The dancing... | |
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