 | Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...the loud laugh, that spoke the vacant mind. These all in soft confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause, the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail ; No cheerful murmurs flutter in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the bloomy flush of life... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds...bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds...busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluetuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all the blooming flush of life... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...as they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines— " Yon widow'd solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,'* are supposed to apply... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...as they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines— " Yon widow'd solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread," are supposed to apply to... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines — " Yon widow'd solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,1' are supposed to apply... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. " The pathetic lines— ' Yon widow'd solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced in age for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,' are supposed to apply to... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines — ' Yon widow'd solitary thing That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread," are supposed to apply to... | |
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But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But. all the bloomy flush of life is fled. 
