 | Thomas Warton - Dialect poetry, Scottish - 1759 - 168 pages
...ev'ning care: No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to lliare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bovv'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...houfewife ply her evening care : No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envy'd kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle...glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil,... | |
 | English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...No children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft * • Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...broke ; 'How jocund did they drive their team afield I How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...everting care : Nor children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhaie* Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow...glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team afkld ! How bow'd the woods beneath their flurdy ftroke! Let not ambition meek their ufeful toil, Their... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 200 pages
...(hare. 1, Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke f How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods bensath their fturdy ftrokc ! G 4 let Nee vitam utilibus qusc incumbit provida curls, Nec fortem ignotam,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1770 - 136 pages
...from the ftraw-built flied, The cock's fhrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more fhall roufe them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing...their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdyftroke ! Let Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...Or climb his knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their fnrrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their teem afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy flroke ' Let not Ambition mock their ufefu!... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1775 - 168 pages
...No more fhall roufe them from their lowly bed. .•-- f For them no more the blazing hearth fliall burn, Or bufy houfewife ply her evening care ; ""...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bc%v'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their -homely... | |
 | William Giles (didactic writer) - 1775 - 336 pages
...climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. \ Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their harrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a- field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil,... | |
 | John Wesley - Biography - 1786 - 738 pages
...children run to lifp their fire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the barveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn...How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their fturciy ftroke \ Let not Ambition mock their ufeful 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. 
