 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 580 pages
...female lief. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, Has wept at tales of innocence distresl ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as...fled, Near her betrayer's door she lays her head."] t [The following paragraph, with which the paper originally concluded, had, probably, some personal... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...distrest ; Her modest looks the eottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thern ; A [shewer, And, pinehed with eold, and shrinking from the With heavy heart deplores that luekless heur,... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts? — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering he garden, For there's many hereabout ; And often...I go to plough, The ploughshare turns them out ! shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left... | |
 | American poetry - 1926 - 780 pages
...universal joy! Are these thy serious thoughts ? — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty...— Near her betrayer's door she lays her head, And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty blest, And while he sinks, without one arm to able save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1744 pages
...shall poverty reside, Xo 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits let, like Wavcrley, is concerned with Prince Charles...attempt on his part to win the throne of England, an strayed, And, pinch'd with cold, and shrinking He drives his flock to pick the scanty • from the... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...distrest ; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peep's beneath the thorn : 330 . shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour. When idly first, ambitious of the town, 333 She... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...distressed; Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; 330 woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, 40 And all their echoes pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...a proud rich man is sentimental melodrama at its grossest: Her modest looks the cottage might adom, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn; Now...fled— Near her betrayer's door she lays her head And, pinched with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...universal joy ! Are these thy serious thoughts — Ah, turn thine eyes Where the poor houseless shivering female lies. She once, perhaps, in village plenty...head, And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left... | |
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And pinch'd with cold, and shrinking from the shower, With heavy heart deplores that luckless hour, When idly first, ambitious of the town, She left her wheel and robes of country brown. 
