 | Book - 1847 - 206 pages
...Where humble happiness endear' d each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, The shelter' d cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighb'ring hill, 28 THE DESERTED VILLAGE. The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking... | |
 | John Mather Austin - 1847 - 414 pages
...Where humble happiness endeared each scene ; How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that crowned the neighbormg hill." In coming to a decision upon the question of residence in the city or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...Where -humble happiness endeared each scene ; How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and youthful... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene 1 How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated...mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring lull, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made !... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 pages
...have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 740 pages
...have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering... | |
 | John Forster - 1848 - 1294 pages
...have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm, The shelter'd cot, the cultivated...never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...humble happiness endeared each scene! How ii'icii have I paused on every charm ! — The sheltered cot ; the cultivated farm ; The never-failing brook ; the busy mill ; The decent church that topped the neighboring hill ; The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm, — • The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighboring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering... | |
 | 1850 - 52 pages
...of the "Deserted Village." Birket Foster's "Sweet Auburn" is a charming landscape : " The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill," — are all there ; and one can but wish one's self there too, leaning... | |
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Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I... 
