| 1809 - 402 pages
...These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence | shed, These were thy charms — but all these cbarms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms will*drawn, Amidst thy how'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation suddens all thy green : One... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, [are fled. These were thy charms — but all these charms mberless escapes In ruin end . and now their proud succf« But plants alljthy charms withdrawn, Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...please ; These ronnd thy bowers their cheerfnl inflnence shed , These were thy charms— Bnt all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest...thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, Andhalfa tillage stints thy smiling plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, Bnt, choak'd... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...please; These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : « IJH i , nly master grasps... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...hill,. The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made. Sweet smiling village loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn - f Amidst thy bow'rs, the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master... | |
| George Barrington - Canary Islands - 1810 - 512 pages
...or other ; and the stone walls which were their principal fences, are broken down and in ruins : " Amidst thy bowers, the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all the green." Some of the officers having obtained leave from the agent of transports- to visit the town... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 572 pages
...Lusitanian villages, and with much greater justice than of those for which the complaint was written, " Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvary'd cries; And trembling,... | |
| Thomas Garnett - Highlands (Scotland) - 1811 - 402 pages
...enemy, and gain glory to their country, an opulent tacksman, with a solitary herd, occupy the lands. One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints the smiling plain.* WHILE reflecting on these circumstances, we arrived at Fbrt William, which is situated... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms....but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glasty brook reflects the day, But choak'd with sedges, works its weedy way Along thy glades, a solitary... | |
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