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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... "
The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror - Page 171
1825
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...lovers made ! 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...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 featsof strength went...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 13

1839 - 584 pages
...housewives, and sulky men-folk ! THE FIRST OP MAT IN SAVANNAH. ' How oil the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending, ai the old surveyed ; And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful baud...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1840 - 488 pages
...lovers made ! How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their...shade, The young contending as the old surveyed." Milton describes this tree as the favourite resort of shepherds : " Every shepherd tells his tale,...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 378 pages
...lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, ' id sleights of art and feats of strength...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...lovers made ! 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...While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contended as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and...
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Arundines Cami; sive, Musarum Cantabrigiensium lusus canori, collegit atque ...

Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...lovers made ! 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...contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as each...
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The third book of reading lessons, Volume 3

Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...pilgrims made ! 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...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 ait and feats of strength went...
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...lovers made ! How often have I bless'd the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their...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 andfeats of strength wentround;...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...lovers made! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And ime endure, I only would repress them to secure : Por just experience tells, in every soil, manya pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd...
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A Vision of Pengwerne and Other Poems

David Simons - 1841 - 178 pages
...ground where I stood — for my imagination pourtrayed them as blithe and gay as when in reality. " Many a pastime circled in the shade — The young contending as the old survey'd." The custom in the days of Elizabeth was at its height for holding and performing plays,...
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