 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
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 536 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, English - 1837 - 600 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... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...thousand fold it doth." In " The Deserted Village," Goldsmith rather varies the picture, and shows us " The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made." The hawthorn is the usual accompaniment of that characteristic feature of English rural scenery, the... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - Flower language - 1837 - 264 pages
...common hawthorn, Crategus Oxycanthvg. Now hawthonis blossom, now the daisies spring. Pope, The hawtliarn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age, and whispering lovers made. Goldmith'i Dem ted Ullage. And hawthorn't early blooms appear, Like youthful hope upon life's year.... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 564 pages
...the line — " The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool." Another natural object — "The hawthora 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... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 786 pages
...conjured up a more beautiful picture of the hawthorn, than Goldsmith in his Deserted Village : — " The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made." The custom of going a Maying, that is, going out early in the morning of the 1st of May to gather bunches... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 788 pages
...conjured up a more beautiful picture of the hawthorn, than Goldsmith in his Deserted Village: — " The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lover* made." The custom of going a Maying, that is, going out early in the morning of the 1st of May... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...profited. The Hawthorn conjures up by its very name thoughts of love and poetry — ' The hawthorn-bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made,' the custom of going a-maying, the floral games, and all the other associations connected with that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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 seats...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... | |
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