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" Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke. "
London Magazine Enlarged and Improved - Page 128
1751
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Poems

Thomas Gray - 1778 - 182 pages
...yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The Ihort and fimple annals of the poor. The boafl of heraldry, the pomp of power,...
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The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original ..., Volume 9

John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their fturciy ftroke \ Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil,...joys and deftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear, with a difdaiuful faille. The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boa ft of heraldry, the pomp of power,...
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Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And ...

1780 - 226 pages
...broke; How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath theirfturdyftroke! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of powTy And all that beamy, all that wealth e'er gaye Await alike...
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Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 1

1781 - 516 pages
...yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The Ihort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power,...
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The Lady's Poetical Magazine: Or, Beauties of British Poetry, Volume 1

1781 - 512 pages
...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroko ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile; The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. . The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power,...
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A Criticism on the Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard: Being a ...

John Young - 1783 - 124 pages
...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. IX. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of power,...
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Pieces selected from the Italian poets, by A. Isola, and tr. into Engl ...

Agostino Isola - 1784 - 140 pages
...yield, Their furrow oft the flubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The Di que' duri olmi a l' ombra, e di quel...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion: A Collection of Poems

1785 - 320 pages
...Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; Hovv jocund did they drive their teem afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let...ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; r Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful firu'le, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boafl...
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The Muse's Pocket Companion. A Collection of Poems: By Lord Carlisle. Lord ...

1785 - 304 pages
...yield, Their furrow oft the flubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teem afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let...Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deRiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmite, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor....
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Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets

John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 492 pages
...hilarity of the carter, than when applied to the corporeal energy or agility of the reaper. V. 29. Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a difdainful finile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor : The pleonafm and periflblogy, have been...
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