 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...noontide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy rolls their world away:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...noon-tide hour ! Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore, So blessed a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pages
...noon-tide hour ! Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. So blessed a life these thoughtless relms display, Thus idly busy rolls their... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...noontide hour. Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 496 pages
...sketch, — Alike all ages ; dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. Nor must I forget to mention the Fete Patronale, — a kind of annual fair, which... | |
 | Britain - 1844 - 270 pages
...hour ; Alike all ages — dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of three score." NOTE III. p. 72. In a few of the counties of England, public registers of conveyances... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...noontide hour. Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Hare led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display ; Thus idJy busy rolls their... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...hour, 250 Alike all ages ; dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. So bless'da life these thoughtless realms display ; 25 5 Thus idly busy rolls... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...noontide hour. Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy rolls their world away... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Line 251. Alike all ages : dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. Line 327. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human... | |
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Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. 
