 | 1820 - 696 pages
...companion with peculiar feeling and emphasis : — " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawo, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn...domain. And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." Mr. Willis noticed my surprise. " I suspect," said he, " yo« are not aware of the classical neighbourhood... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens...plain : No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But chok'd with sedges works its weary way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, [fled. These were thy charms—but all these charms are Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, [fled. These were thy charms — but all these charms are Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
 | Walter Blunt, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1822 - 504 pages
...emphasis: — " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, aud all thy charing withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." Mr. Willis noticed my surprise. " I suspect," said he, " you are not aware of the classical neighbourhood... | |
 | 1837 - 496 pages
...blood — and even to Oh ! I shall not meet Cazotte again with pleasure !'' CHAP. II. The Breakfcut. " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green." Deserted Village. Marie Antoinette, who, simple and we might add unprecedented in her tastes, had become... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, [fled. These were thy charms — But all these charms are William Hazlitt( chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
 | 1824 - 398 pages
...could not help observing was pronounced by my companion with peculiar feeling and emphasis : — " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." Mr. Willis noticed my surprise. " I suspect," said he, " you are not aware of the classical neighbourhood... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
....Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen* And Desolation saddens all thy green : One only muter grasps the whole domain. And half a tillage stints...weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow -sounding bittera guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies. And tires their... | |
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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... 
