 How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...  Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Page 6by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers madet How often have I blest the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn...contending as the old survey'd.'; And many a gambol frblicM o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still, as each... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I blessed the coining th stared ; the man looked woudroua wise— 1 My children.' the surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And ill the village train from labour free, led Dp ery? Any who are for meanly giving up the privilege of Britons? Can any, sir, be so and feats of strength went round; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 pages
...exertions likewise produce considerable fun aud laughter : — How often have I blest the coming-day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play. And all...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed : And many a gambol polish'd o'er the ground, And sleights of nrt, and feats of strength went... | |
 | Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers niadu, 3. How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ! And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art, and feats of strength went... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...fathers." — SIR WALTER SCOTT, Prose Works, vol. iii. p. 250, edit. l834. See alsoZi/e, ch. xix.] How often have I bless'd the coming day,"' When toil...gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...vol. iii. p. 250, edit. IS34. See also Life, ch. xix.] How often have I bless'd the coming day,(1) When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For...gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...the shade. The young contending as the old survey'd ; D And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.... | |
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