 | English essays - 1751 - 684 pages
...; [field ! How jocund did they drive their team aHow bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys and deftiny obfcure. Nor grandeur hear with a difdaintM fmile The fiiort and Ample annals of the poor. The boaft of heratdiy, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 168 pages
...broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and funple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1753 - 164 pages
...mare. K 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 ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1753 - 164 pages
...fhare. K 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! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...to fhare. 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! Let not Ambition mock their ufcful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy fbroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful ftnile, The fhort and Ample annals of the poor. The The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...to fhare. 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 Aroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - English poetry - 1762 - 308 pages
...i 2 Quam Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke I How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroket Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...; 'How jocund did they drive their team afield I How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmiie» The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...to mare. 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 ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and dcffiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
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Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke... 
