 ... Before him swallows, gathering for the sea, Took their short flights, and twitter'd on the lea ; And near the bean-sheaf stood, the harvest done, And slowly blacken'd in the sickly sun ; All these were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him,...  The works of ... George Crabbe - Page 192by George Crabbe - 1820Full view - About this book
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 376 pages
...were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while, Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile. Not much remam'd ; for money and my lord Soon made the father of the youth accord ; His prudence half resisted,... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 pages
...were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while. Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile." " Except Gray's Elegy, there is scarcely so melancholy and touching a picture in English poetry." •"... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1829 - 348 pages
...look. And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while, Then met his Fauny with a horrow'd smile. Not mueh remain'd ; for money and my lord Soon made the father of the yonth aeeord ; His prndenee half resisted, half ohey'd, And seorn kept still the guardians of the maid... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - 924 pages
...were sad in natnre, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look. And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while. Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile." " Except Gray's Elegy, there is scarcely so melancholy and touching a picture in English poetry." "... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 922 pages
...wen sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of bis look. And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while. Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile.' " Except Gray's Elegy, there is scarcely so melancholy and touching a picture in English poetry." "... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1845 - 558 pages
...they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponderad for a white, Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile. Not much...of the maid Cecilia never on the subject spoke, She seein'd as one who from a dream awoke ; So all was peace, and soon the married pair Fix'd with fair... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 692 pages
...were sad in nature ; or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while, Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile." — vol. ii. p. 84, 85. The moral autumn is quite as gloomy, and far more hopeless. " The Natural Death... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1847 - 618 pages
...were sod in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while, Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd...the youth accord ; His prudence half resisted, half obey 'd, And scorn kept still the guardians of the maid : Cecilia never on the subject spoke, She eeem'd... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 878 pages
...were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while. Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile. Only in the last lines is Crabbe at all reminiscent of his worst side ; and that side belongs, almost... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1882 - 272 pages
...were sad in nature, or they took Sadness from him, the likeness of his look, And of his mind — he ponder'd for a while, Then met his Fanny with a borrow'd smile. Five years had pass'd, and what was Henry then ? The most repining of repenting men ; With a fond,... | |
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