THE DESERTED VILLAGE ILLUSTRATED1888 |
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admits the gorgeous baneful arts combined bare-worn common black gibbet glooms charms city sped-what waits combined To pamper common is denied common's fenceless limits courtier glitters crowds the blazing denote one universal dome where pleasure DOWNWARD THEY MOVE drives his flocks e'en the bare-worn fellow-creature's woe fenceless fields fenceless limits strayed fields the sons flocks to pick gibbet glooms beside glitters in brocade HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY holds her midnight houseless shivering female J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS long-drawn pomps display MELANCHOLY BAND OLIVER GOLDSMITH pale artist plies pick the scanty pleasure know plies the sickly poor houseless shivering proud their long-drawn rattling chariots clash scanty blade shivering female lies sons of pleasure sons of wealth strayed He drives Sure scenes Sure these denote sweet Auburn sweet oblivion tales of innocence thin mankind Thou thousand baneful arts thy serious thoughts?-Ah tremblers troubles e'er annoy Tumultuous grandeur crowds wealth divide wept
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Página 17 - The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away, Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won.
Página 17 - And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 25 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Página 1 - A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
Página 45 - Thither no more the peasant shall repair To sweet oblivion of his daily care; No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale, No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail; No more the smith his dusky brow shall clear, Relax his pond'rous strength, and lean to hear...
Página 25 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around, And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot.
Página 25 - The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 3 - In all my wand'rings round this world of care, In all my griefs — and God has given my share — I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close.
Página 17 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, — Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.