| George Crabbe - 1823 - 296 pages
...? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| George Crabbe - 1823 - 334 pages
...? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| 1834 - 424 pages
...is contained in the following lines from " The Village," a poem that stamped his rising fame : — " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves it* withered ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| George Crabbe - 1823 - 302 pages
...o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo! where the heath, with witheringbrakegrowno'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor;...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 510 pages
...the delusive colours of the muse : — " Lo ! where the heath with withering brake grown o'er, Lend the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor ; From thence a length of burning sands appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; Rank weeds that every an and care defy,... | |
| George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pages
...shed? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art. and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 636 pages
...Village " was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the Poet's nativity and boyish days: — " Lo 1 where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles spread their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infants threaten war." ' The " broad river," called... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...The Village " was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the Poet's nativity and boyish days : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears ; * " From an accurate plan of the borough, which was taken in 1559, it appears that the church was... | |
| 1834 - 512 pages
..." The Village " was copied in every touch from the scene of the poet's nativity and boyish days : " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 352 pages
...Village" was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the Poet's nativity and boyish days : — " Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted... | |
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