Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and... A Manual of Morals for Common Schools - Page 86by Arethusa Hall - 1849 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Stow - Education - 1854 - 586 pages
...passage from Scripture, and one from Cowper : — " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth ;" ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Ju«t knowi, and know* no more, her Bible's true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman* never knew ;... | |
| John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 388 pages
...credentials are in his own heart. Like the poor woman spoken of by the beautiful English poet, — " She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives np praise ; but, though her lot be such, (Toilsome, and indigent,) she renders much; Just knows, and... | |
| Henry Burgess - 1854 - 130 pages
...two mites into the treasury of God? or the woman described by Cowper ? — " Yon cottager who spins at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean. " This poverty is decent, though meanly clad ; contented, though almost destitute ; and in many senses,... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 458 pages
...And, smother'd iu't at last, is praised to death ! Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, ftllow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay Muffling her threads about the livelong day, 320 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night 821 Lies... | |
| John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 388 pages
...credentials are in his own heart. Like the poor woman spoken of by the beautiful English poet, — " She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no witj Eeceives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, (Toilsome, and indigent,) she renders much;... | |
| Robert Benton Seeley - 1855 - 294 pages
...flying joy ; Till nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round." " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...down secure, her heart and pocket light : She for her humbjp sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit : Receives no praise ; but though... | |
| William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful if not gay Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 330 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down...heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nat TO fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but though her lot be such,... | |
| John Cumming - Christian life - 1855 - 290 pages
...that are connected with you. How responsible a thing is daily life ! CHAPTER XIV. THE CHRISTIAN. " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: — She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, lias little understanding, and no wit, Just knows, and... | |
| John William Kirton - Bible - 1873 - 244 pages
...Jesus." What it would do for the Queen, it does for the poorest subject. As Cowper puts it, — " Ton cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
| Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - 264 pages
...you will be able to understand those lines of Cowper's in which he praises a poor lace-maker : — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow,...little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; yet, though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent, she renders much. Just knows, and knows no more,... | |
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