 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the entied kin to «hare. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...housewife ply her ev'ning care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure: Nor grandeur hear,... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sires return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share....! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her even'inj-care : US Nor children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teams afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...her evening carNo children run to lisp their sire's retu Or climb his knees, the envied ki«« to i_ Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke .' Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How how'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion,...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...shrill clarion or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly btd. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...them from their iowly bed. For them no more the blazing1 hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife pl;ifher evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let'not ambition mock Iheir useful toil, Their homely joys and destiny obscure : Nor grandeur hear,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 358 pages
...for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed,...! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn... 
