 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 490 pages
...sound ; Nor swords were forged ; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...: Content with food, which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 496 pages
...sound ; Nor swords were forged ; hut, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow: Content with food, which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 496 pages
...sound ; No swords were forged ; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...: Content with food, which nature freely bred, On wildings and on straw-berries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 302 pages
...sound: Nor swords were forged ; but, void of care and The soft creation slept away their time- [crime, The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow: Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...notwithstanding whatever the poet may dream of the golden age, when, as Ovid and Lucretius inform us. " The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough. And,...allow ; Content with food which Nature freely bred. On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest. And fallen acorns... | |
 | Ovid - Didactic poetry, Latin - 1833 - 330 pages
...Nor swords were forged ; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. 131 The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow : Content with food which Nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; 135 Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - English literature - 1834 - 572 pages
...sound, Nor swords were forged, but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time ; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow, Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and On strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acoms... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Child rearing - 1835 - 500 pages
...sound, Nor swords were forg'd, but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time ; The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow, Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
 | Ovid - 1836 - 306 pages
...sound, Nor swords were forged; but, void of care and crime, " soft creation slept away their time. 131 The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow : Content with food which Nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; 135 Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
 | Fables - 1837 - 292 pages
...sound, Nor swords were forged ; but, void of care and crime, The soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And...allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns... | |
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The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out... 
