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" How often have I blest 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 While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd... "
The spirit of the woods, by the author of 'The moral of flowers'. - Page 271
by Rebecca Hey - 1837
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree. While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young...sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd; The dancing...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tref ; While many a pastime 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...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime 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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...play, E And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young...; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree. While muny a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending...sleights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 5-6

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 pages
...play. And all the village train, from labour free, «, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young...frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and J eats of strength went round,. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...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. The young...sleights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The dancing...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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, The young...; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...play , And all the village train from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; ntaught, will fiiid; Slai e to no sect, who takes...Nature up to Nature's God ; Pursues that chain whi sleits of art and featsof strength wentround. And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...play, And nil the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; VOL. in. H And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went...
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