 | 1846 - 532 pages
...England : — 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...contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round, These were thy charms,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 pages
...the coming day, When toil, remitting, lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree'...contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 pages
...to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree1 While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young...contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 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 and feats of strength... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pages
...method. The people who live in the village are seen, in this mode, as the lay figures of pastoral: And all the village train from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: Still, as in Thomson, under that hawthorn ! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these,... | |
 | John Norton-Smith - 1983 - 164 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, and feats of strength... | |
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - 1988 - 310 pages
...its palaces surprize') by evoking the genial egalitarian scenes an emparking landlord had erased And all the village train, from labour free. Led up their...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd;47 - are episodes in the poems John Clare wrote against Parliamentary enclosure : Thou art... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 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 repeated... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...lovers made. How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its tum to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their...the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round,... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 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 flights of an, and feats of strength went... | |
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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... 
