 Thither no more the peasant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale; No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean...  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 46by Oliver Goldsmith - 1809Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering- mansion from its fall ' Obsciu-e it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's...shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care ; Fo more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No more... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's...more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear ; The host himself no longer shall be found Carefull to see the... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...splendours! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's...more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear; The host himself no longer shall be found Careful to see the... | |
 | William Eastmead - Caves - 1824 - 536 pages
...the tottering ruin from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's instruction to the poor man's heart. Thither no more the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his weekly care. Amids't thy desert aisles the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvary'd cries.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ? Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's heart. Thither no mure the peasant shall repair, To sweet oblivion of his daily care; No more the farmer's news, the... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...splendors ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks ; nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to* the poor man's...barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; ;Jo more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength and lean to hear. The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...splendour ! could not all Retrieve the tott'ring mansion from its fall ? Obscure it sinks, nor shill it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's...daily care ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's talc, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; , No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the tott'ring mansion from its fall ! Obseure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importanee ers on silver lakes and rivers bath'd Their downy breast; the swan, with arehed eare ; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail ; No... | |
 | Mac Erin O'Tara (pseud.) - Ireland - 1825 - 954 pages
...Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail. GOLnSMITH. THE house of entertainment, in which the strange figure noticed by lord Thomas had disappeared,... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...splendours ! could not all Reprieve the tottering mansion from its fall ! Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's...more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his ponderous strength, and lean to hear ; The, host himself no longer shall be found Careful to see the... | |
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