 | 1751 - 684 pages
...Their harrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; [field ! How jocund did they drive their team aHow bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let...joys and deftiny obfcure. Nor grandeur hear with a difdaintM fmile The fiiort and Ample annals of the poor. The boaft of heratdiy, the pomp of pow'r,... | |
 | Collection - 1755 - 378 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke; How jocund did they drive their team...beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not Ambition mock their ufcful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor Grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 384 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their...afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy Aroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to' their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their...afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy fbroke t Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1759 - 168 pages
...the envied kifs to lliare. 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 bovv'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 312 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. _. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their...How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let CARMEN ELEGIACUM, In CIM^ETERIO RUSTICO compofitum. AUdiftin ! quam lenta fonans campana per agros,... | |
 | John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke !...ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and defliny obfcure ; Nor grandeur hear with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor.... | |
 | Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 308 pages
...i 2 Quam Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke I How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroket Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor grandeur... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their...Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and dcffiny obfcure ; Nor Grandeur hear, with a difdainful fmile, The fhort and fimple annals of the poor.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 pages
...knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their...afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroket Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny (jbfcure ; Nor grandeur... | |
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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. 
