 | 1795 - 432 pages
...feebly bends besides the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mant'ling cresses spread, To pick her...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. ****** The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many poor supply'd ; Space for his kke, his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her...once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden sm i I'd , And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place... | |
 | Jacques Delille - 1800 - 286 pages
...deserted Village; et peut-être ne sera-t-on pas fâché de trouver ici les vers du poëte anglois. « Near yonder copse where once the garden smil'd, « And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; n There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose 2 n The village preacher's modest mansion rose.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her...once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ; To pick her wintVy faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and...of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once a garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread; To pick her...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Remote tVom towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wisli'd to change his place : Unskilful... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...That feebly brnd beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron ! forc'd in age for bread, To strip r 7 Z{ G T j .VܴɃ ڞR E + @2 stck her nightly shed, and vreep till morn , She or.ly left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, And seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian... | |
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To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 
