 | Thomas Gray - 1799 - 270 páginas
...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...: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 páginas
...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...afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke! i •. J Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 680 páginas
...bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb bis knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest...stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiuy obscure; Kur Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 páginas
...busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his kuees, the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their...sturdy stroke! Let not ambition mock their useful toil, « Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 páginas
...run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. 236 LESSONS [PART 1. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their...sturdy stroke Let not ambition mock their useful toil, k' Their homely joys and destiny obscure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, The short and... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 292 páginas
...air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tiuklings lull the distant folds ; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 páginas
...rouse them from their lowly bed. The swallow, twittering from the straw-built shed, For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 páginas
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! . How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! 14* Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 páginas
...no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; Ns children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath tkeir sturdy stroke ! -J* 170 THE AMERICAN READEU.^| Let not Ambition mock... | |
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The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife... 
