With sunburnt hands and ale-enliven'd face, Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale. The Poetical Works of Robert Bloomfield - Page 36by Robert Bloomfield - 1857 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
| 680 pages
...enliven'd face. Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend, Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale." Another poet, of more ancient date, describes the same subject : " Sturdy swains In clean array for... | |
| Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 158 pages
...ale-enliven'd face, Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale,...sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modem usage. v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1800 - 374 pages
...ale-enliven'd face, Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master -and the friend; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale,...nuts, his conversation, and his ale. Such were the d£jys,...of days long past I sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modern... | |
| Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 184 pages
...his smiles, to share his tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale. Such were the d£fys,...of days long past I sing> -. , When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modem usage. v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - Farm life - 1801 - 390 pages
...tend, To serve at once the master and the friend; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his talc, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale. Such were...sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modern usage. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings of the... | |
| 1850 - 638 pages
...quotation from the labourer poet Bloomfield. A little more polished, and it might have been from Crabbe. ' Such were the days, — of days long past I sing,...pride gave place to mirth without a sting ; Ere tyrant custom strength sufficient bore, To violate the feelings of the poor : To leave them distanced in the... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1803 - 188 pages
...ale-enliven'd face, .Refills the jug his hononr'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend ; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale. Contract of modern usage. v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - Country life - 1806 - 212 pages
...ale-enliven'd face, Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend ; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale,...sing,. When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modern ur-age. ' v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - Country life - 1806 - 198 pages
...host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend ; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share bis tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale. Such...sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Cuiitrii.it it modem usage. V. *ii. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate tta feelings... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1815 - 166 pages
...ale-enliven'd face, Refills the jug his honour'd host to tend, To serve at once the master and the friend; Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale,...sting; Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore Contrast of modern Usage. To violate the feelings of the poor; To leave them distanc'd in the mad'ning... | |
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