 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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 train, from... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 416 pages
...strength in Ireland. Recollections of these "healthful sports " we find in his " Deserted Village:" " How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil...its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: j And many a gambol frolicked o'er the... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking ag.: and whispering lovers made! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And'tnany a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...fathers." — SIR WALTER SCOTT, Prose Works, vol. iii. p. 250, edit. 1834. • See also Life, ch. xix.] How often have I bless'd the coming day,* When toil...its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade,... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 344 pages
...farm ; The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topped the neighbouring 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 train, from labour... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...farm ; The never failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church, that topped the neighbouring 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 train, from labour... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...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...tree — While many a pastime circled in the shade, 32 And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round... | |
 | John Norton-Smith - Social Science - 1983 - 164 pages
...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 to...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - Art - 1988 - 310 pages
...strike, its palaces surprize') by evoking the genial egalitarian scenes an emparking landlord had erased And all the village train, from labour free. Led up...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd;47 - are episodes in the poems John Clare wrote against Parliamentary enclosure : Thou art... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...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 made. How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour... | |
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How often have I bless'd 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... 
