 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...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 hear, with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...broke ; 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 (jbfcure ; Nor grandeur hjpal Mth a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fi'mple annals of the poor. The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Cats - 1768 - 140 pages
...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let 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 pow'r,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1768 - 142 pages
...they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! . ELEGY WRITTEN IN 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 boafl of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...reliftas ? Dicite, follicitet cineres fi fama repoftos ? Gloria ii gelidat Fatorum mulceat Aures ? QiiTs Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcurc ; Nor Grandeur hear -with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. 9The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1770 - 134 pages
...drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods- beneath their fturdy firoke ! Let ii2 ELEGY WRITTEN IN A Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure i Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful (mile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor. The tjoaft of... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...teem afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy flroke ' Let not Ambition mock their ufefu! toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The lhort and funplc annals of the poor. The The boaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | English literature - 1773 - 394 pages
...Their furrow oft the Itubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition...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 pow'r,... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1774 - 260 pages
...increpuere boves ! Horum fylva vetus quam concidit i&a. bipenni, Quaque ruit late vi tremefecit humum ! Ne 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 pow'r,... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...harrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a- field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition...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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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. 
