 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 pages
...? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? . . . Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1899 - 492 pages
...From Picture by C. Stanjield, RA ALDBOROUGH „ „ 381 CRABBE'S POEMS SMUGGLERS AND LABOURERS J_jO ! 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... | |
 | 1899 - 948 pages
...Village," the chief beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,... | |
 | 1899 - 640 pages
...beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the beath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,... | |
 | Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, Charles Edward Doble, James Sutherland Cotton, Charles Lewis Hind, William Teignmouth Shore, Alfred Bruce Douglas, Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Thomas William Hodgson Crosland - 1900 - 578 pages
...make for magic. The following description of the Aldborough neighbourhood is a very good example : Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Keign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 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,...poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye : There thistles... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 624 pages
...copied, in every touch, from the scene of the Poet's nativity and boyish days : — •• Loi when the heath, with withering brake grown o'er. Lends...neighbouring poor ; From thence a length of burning sanu appear*, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd ears , Rank weeds, that every art and care... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1920 - 398 pages
...fragment from the " Village," which is simply a description of the neighbourhood of Aldborough : — Lo I where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...withered ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Eeign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And... | |
 | Sidney Colvin - 1921 - 522 pages
...person, he thus resents the colour and variety of the unprofitable vegetation of the coast : — Lo 1 where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warm* the neighbouring poor. From thence a length of burning sand appears. Where the thin harvest ware*... | |
 | Eric Partridge - 1924 - 284 pages
...clear-cut descriptions of Nature, Crabbe prepared the way for Wordsworth, as eg in the following passage : From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest wavea its wither'd ears ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the... | |
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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 rye : There thistles stretch their prickly arms afar, And to the ragged infant threaten war... 
