 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 108by sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Poetry - 1839 - 156 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 218 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 bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 527 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighh'ringhill, s, and call it a curiosity, ! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village... | |
 | Fashion - 1867
...never-failing brook ; the busy mill ; The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hill ; The hawthorn-bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made !" And yet there is a calm and tranquillity about the Temple not altogether unsuited for the resting-place... | |
 | Christianity - 1840
...the aged. Such a tree has Goldsmith immortalized in his touching description of his native village. " 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1840
...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 whisp'ring lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn... | |
 | Cam river - 1841
...sheltered cot and cultivated farm, The never-failing brook and 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 527 pages
...cultivated far«. The never-failing brook, the busy null, The decent church that topp'd the neigh b" 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pages
...farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topp'd the neighbouring hi11, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 118 pages
...cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the ncighb'ring hill; The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn... | |
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