 | Monthly literary register - 1809 - 752 pages
...Farmer's Boy," makes the following beautiful allusion; " The right of conquest all the law they knew: Subordinate, they one by one succeed ; And one among them always takes the lead : Is ever foremost, whereioc'cr they stray, Al'.ow'd precedence undisputed sway ¡ \Viih jealous pride her station is numtain'd,... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...an idle gaze, Forwell they know the cow-}ard yi< Ids no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wmlry store. Reluctance marks their steps, sedate and slow,...among them always takes the lead, Is ever foremost, whercsoe'cr they stray, Allow'd precedence, undisputed sway l With jealous pride her station is maintaintd,... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - Country life - 1806 - 212 pages
...heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summon with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wintry store. Reluctance...slow ; The right of conquest all the law they know : The strong press on, the weak by turns succeed, And one superior always takes the lead ; Is ever... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1811 - 456 pages
...delineator of nature, Bloomfield, who, in his " Farmer's Boy," makes the following beautiful allusion: "The right of conquest all the law they know: Subordinate,...the lead: Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray, Allowed precedence undisputed sway; With jealous pride her station is maintained, For many a broil... | |
 | 1812 - 470 pages
...delineator of nature, Dloomfield, who, in his " Fanner's Boy," makes the following beautiful allusion: " The right of conquest all the law they, know: Subordinate,...the lead: Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray, Allowed precedence undisputed sway; With jealous pride her station is maintained, For many a broil... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...they graze ; Or hear the summons with an idle gaze-; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wintry store. Reluctance...slow ; The right of conquest all the law they know. The strong press on, the weak by turns succeed. And one, superior, always takes the lead ; Is ever... | |
 | Mary Roberts - Gloucestershire (England) - 1831 - 388 pages
...they graze, Or hear the summons with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wint'ry store. Reluctance...succeed, And one among them always takes the lead ; With jealous pride her station is maintain'd, For many a broil that post of honour gain'd. Forth... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1844 - 372 pages
...extremely rapid. Bloomfield has alluded to this authority among cows : — Tho ri1fl,t of conquent all the law they know ; Subordinate, they one by one succeed ; And one among them always tuken the lead ; Ia aver foremost, wheresue'er they •tray, Allowed precedence, undisputed sway; With... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summons with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cowyard yields no more y, That wraps my Highland Mary ! O pale, pale now, those rosy lips I aft hae kiss'd The strong press on, the weak hy turns succeed, And one superior always takes the lead ; Is ever foremost,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...For well they know the cowyard yields no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wintry store, ground : ONYx 1` 1 H 1 : The strong press on, the weak hy turns succeed, And one superior always takes the lead ; Is ever... | |
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Straight to the meadow then he whistling goes ; With well-known halloo calls his lazy cows : Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summons with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting fragrance, nor... 
