 | Marie-Joseph Chénier - 1829 - 484 pages
...et l'ombre, Sous ces frêles gazons, parure du tombeau, Dorment les villageois, ancêtres du hameau. The breezy call of incense-breathing morn , The swallow...Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield , Their harrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow' d the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...hamlet sleep. The breezy call of incense breathing morn, The swallow, twitt'iing from the straw built shed, The cock's shrill clarion or the echoing horn,...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to shaie. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
 | Timothy Flint - American fiction - 1829 - 182 pages
...prospect that it would be, was a source of serious apprehension to them. CHAPTER III. " For him no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share." To meet these evils they had one grand resource beside religion. We would to God that every... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...sleep. The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built »hed. The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...busy housewife ply her eyeuiug care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb lu .( kuees s it to be found but iu the finest of our soils. At...companion the famous Jonathan Swift, who retained no a-fleld 1 How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke I Let not ambition mock their useful toil,... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. 6. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...their sire's return Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. 7. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...more the blazing hearth shall bum', Or busy housewife* ply her evening care'; Nor children'' run to lisp their sire's return', Or climb his knees', the...Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke'; How jocund0 did they drive their team a-field'! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke'. Let not... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...WiNTEE,'had anticipated some of the most touching particulars of this famous stanza, — " 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." — GRAY. "In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair blazing, and the vestment... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...holds, Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds; Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke ! Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely... | |
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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. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn... 
