| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of...By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's... | |
| English poetry - 1863 - 392 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....By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's... | |
| 1863 - 224 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending, as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of...By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneafh the spreading tree ! While many a pastime' circled5 in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd...each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful3 band inspired : The dancing4 pair,5 that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each... | |
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 pages
...beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made ! How often have I blest the coining day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And...By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place , The bashfiil virgin's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1864 - 436 pages
...described were all customary on a Sunday in Irdand at and subsequent to the date of this po«m. •to And all the village train, from labour free, Led up...By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1864 - 182 pages
...with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting, lent its turn...pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The... | |
| James Beattie, Oliver Goldsmith - Gift books - 1864 - 540 pages
...steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights...By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's... | |
| James Harris (of King's sch, Chester.) - English language - 1865 - 128 pages
...with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn...By holding out to tire each other down; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place; The bashful virgin's... | |
| Henry Drury - English poetry - 1865 - 424 pages
...the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made! How often have I blest the coming day,...strength went round; And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd : The dancing pair that simply sought renown By... | |
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