 How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The...  Lives of the novelists - Page 106by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Bhelter*d cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill ; The hawthorn bush, with seats...beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers madet How often have I blest the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn to play, And all the... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 614 pages
...distinguished the arena of rural sports, and conferred a zest on many a passing event. " The Haifllwrn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made." Adjacent to which should ever be seen the aspiring Mny-polc, decked with garlands of the choicest floweis... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...uever-failiug brook, the busy mill ; The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill ; The hawthorn-bush, m black, I '11 c-.t him. He said ; and full before their sight Produced ! How often have I blessed the coining day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play ; And all the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...cultivated farm, The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topped the neighboring hill; The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn to play, And all the village... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1837 - 466 pages
...shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, — The hawthorn bush, with...shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made !" GOLDSMITH. I MARCH. The whistling ploughman braves the wind, And drives his well-fed steeds along,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighb'ring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, Irish - 1837 - 606 pages
...probably in the line — " The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool." Another natural object — " The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made," was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...probably in the line — " The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool." Another natural object — "The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age, and whispering lovers made," was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1837 - 572 pages
...probably in the line— ' The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool.' " Another natural object— ' The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age, and whispering lovers made,' was larger than ordinary trees of that description, with surrounding seats as here represented ; it... | |
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