 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 pagine
...broke; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their (lurdy ftrokH Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fniile. The fliort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the pemp of power,... | |
 | James Lackington - 1795 - 562 pagine
...all," WEILEY'S Melifla. Here perhaps I may with great propriety quote the following lines of Gray j " Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, " Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure; " Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, fc The fhort and fimple annals of the poor." I am Dear Friend, Yours. LETTER LETTER... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1795 - 472 pagine
...lowly, ruftic fons of want and induftry, in the words of two fwett finging bards of our own country. " Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys, and deftiny obfcure : Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful finile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor." CRAY'S Church-yard. " Nor Nor ye who live... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pagine
...has bmke ; Wow jocund did they drive thçir teams afield ! HOW bovv'il the woods beneath thiir iiurdy ftroke ; Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil,...joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful (mile The Ihort and limpie annals of the poor. The hoaft of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | Scots poems - 1796 - 172 pagine
...ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods be neath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joy, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fbort and fimple annals of... | |
 | 1797 - 350 pagine
...yield1, Their harrow oft the ftubborn glebe had broke, How jocund did they drive their team a-field I How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let...Their homely joys and deftiny obfcure, Nor grandeur here, with a difdainful finiley The fliort and fimple annals of the poor. The boaft of heraldry, the... | |
 | British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pagine
...ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath iheir fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful...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,... | |
 | T. Bowen - 1799 - 76 pagine
...broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy flroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely...joys and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The fiiort and Umpic annals of the poor. The boafl of heraldry, the pomp And all... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pagine
...team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy lirokc ? Let not ambition mock their ufefnl 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 power,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pagine
...children run to lilp'their (ires return, Or climb his kntes the envied kifs to (hare. How bow'd the woudi beneath their fturdy ftroke; Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys and deftiny ol:(rare; Nor grardeur heir with a dildainful (mile, The (hort and (irn;'le unnals of the pour. The... | |
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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. 
