 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - Poetics - 1827 - 468 pages
...swallow twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire"s return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...Theswallowtwitteringrromherstraw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp then- sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...and wo ! — " For him no more the blazing hearth shall burn," Or tender consort wait with anxious care ; " No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share."With his eye upon the eternal world, this dying hero had been careful to prepare a testament,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no...lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envy'd kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...of great feeling and simplicity. The following is from the pathetic muse of Gray : For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. " The two last lines are very nearly a verbal translation. The next imitation, to which I... | |
 | Berthold Thiel - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 356 pages
...twitt'ring from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the ochoing hörn, No more «hall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth ahnll burn, Or busy houswife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or... | |
 | Donna Landry - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 344 pages
...Elegy, from which Gray's poor have been banished, of course, since they are dead: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. (21-24) In Yearsley's peasant household, people read - not tracts or homiletic verse, but... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...hom, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed, 20 For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's retum. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their... | |
 | M. Owen Lee - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 192 pages
...Horace (Odes 2.14.2122) uses Lucretius' passage, as does Thomas Gray in his Elegy: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. But what is rueful in these poets, as they contemplate death ending life, becomes joyful... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 304 pages
...While this recalls the list of deprivations in Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ("For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, / Or busy housewife ply her evening care"), 58 it advances none of Gray's countervailing compensations. Instead Keble uses those leaves to rebuke... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 
