...country, and have seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, ' Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every chaiin, — The shelter'd cot, — the cultivated farm, — The never-failing brook, — the busy mill,...

...swain , Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's ling'ring blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease , Seats of...humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on every charm , The shelter'd cot , the cultivated farm , The never-failing brook , the busy...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter' d o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paused on every...

...two charming specimens of execution, by Creswick, the • * '* Loveliest village of the plain," And The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill. Cope has given in No. 3, a vigorous etching of the Hawthorn Bush ; and Redgrave, a capital piece of...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed ; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every...

...swain ; Where smiling spring- its earliest visit paid, AnJ parting summer's lingering blooms delayed; loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene ! How often have I paused on every...

...on pastoral commonplace, which is at a iitcrary as well as an historical distance from its object. Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease Seats of my youth, when every sport could please. It is not only the amalgamation of the memory of childhood and the memory of the village: it is that,...

...my own, my native land ! ' " MRS. LM CHILD. " How often have I paused on every charm ! The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighboring hill." DR. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. TOPOGRAPHY. — The present town of Dunstable,...

...that the poet is merely creating a 'poetry of direct statement'. This is the passage under discussion: How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble...brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighb'ring hill; The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers...

...swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed, Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene; How often have I paused on every...