| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 páginas
...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the blooming flush of life is fled: All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the splashing spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling... | |
| John S. Skinner, Editor - 1823 - 448 páginas
...of the village-master, and the site if his school-house, and Catherine Girachty, a onely widow; The wretched matron, forced, in age for bread, To strip the brook, with mantling cresses spread ;' according to the usual method of locking it ft and|the house, which I knew to have three trunks,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, lished by William C. Hall forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot... | |
| 1824 - 398 páginas
...tenant ; who was no doubt ' The widow'd solitary thing That feebly bent beside the plashy spring ; The wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.' I am told that there are some individuals who can point out to you the site of the modest mansion of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron ! forc'd in age, (01; bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No eheerful murmurs fluetuate in the gale, d elose sueh seene from every future view. ODE TO...to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own soleum sprin wretehed matron, fore'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 páginas
...of the village-master, and the site of his schoolhouse, and Catherine Giraghty, a lonely widow, The wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, (and to this day the brook and ditches near the spot where her cabin stood abound with cresses), still... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the blooming flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot... | |
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