 How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed;...  Elegant Extracts - Page 198edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...the coming day, When toil remitting, lent its turn to play, :' And all the village train from labour free, £' Led up their sports beneath the spreading...circled in the shade, > The young contending as the old survey 'd : '\ And many a gambol ftolick'd o'er the ground, ,_-, And slights of arts and feats of strength... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...blessed the coming clay, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village-train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...circled in the shade, The young contending, as the old surveyed." The following lines describe the appearance of this tree on the first of April : " Fringing... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding... | |
 | Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - Spain - 1825 - 332 pages
...to present a new world filled with endless pleasures. CHAPTER V. ' AH the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground. And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ? While many a pastime cirled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd...: And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And stights of art and feats of strength went round And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,...survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, Ard sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And ill the village train from labour free, led Dp ery? Any who are for meanly giving up the privilege of Britons? Can any, sir, be so sleights of art and feats of strength went round; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...contending as the old survey'd.'; And many a gambol frblicM o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still, as each... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...the coining day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play ; And all the village train, from labour other: The creature's neither one nor t'other. I caught...And viewed it o'er by candlelight : I marked it wel surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
 | Egerton Smith - English literature - 1831 - 656 pages
...the coming day, When toil remitting, lent its turn to play , When all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree;...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength,... | |
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