 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...wheel (with changes made perhaps intentionally by Johnson), as follows : — ' Verse sweetens care however rude the sound ; All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.' Contemplation, which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...Giffard, a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are introduced, has hitherto been undiscovered : " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All...work the village maiden sings; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...Giffard, a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are introduced, has hitherto been undiscovered : " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All at her work the village maiden sings ; " Xor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pages
...clergyman named Gifford, whose name, but for that beautiful stanza, would have been forgotten also : — ' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at...work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.' What singing is to ' the spinners... | |
 | James Boswell - 1810 - 438 pages
...I'll warrant you, (said Dr. Johnson,) one of the songs of Ossian." He then repeated these lines : " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. " All...the village maiden sings ; " Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." I thought I had heard these lines... | |
 | James Boswell - 1813 - 492 pages
...I'll warrant you, (said Dr. Johnson,) one of the songs of Ossian." He then repeated these lines: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound, " All...work the village maiden sings ; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." I thought I had heard these lines... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pages
...Giffard, a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are introduced, has hitherto been undiscovered : " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All...her work the village maiden sings; " Nor while she lurns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...in his rich style, "he successfully endeavoured to persuade the nation that it was wise and " Vers« sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All, at her...work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...Gift'ard, a clergyman ; but the poem in which they are introduced, has hitherto been undiscovered: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All...work the village maiden sings ; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...Giffard, a clergyman; but the poem in which they are introduced, has hitherto been undiscovered: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound: " All...work the village maiden sings ; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In 1771 he published another political... | |
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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things. 
