 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 pages
...fhurc. J Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke 5 How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokcl Let not Ambition mock their ufc'ful toil, Their homely joys, and Ueftiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | John Young - 1783 - 124 pages
...envied kifs to fharc. VII. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield ; Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! VIII. Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure... | |
 | Agostino Isola - 1784 - 140 pages
...knees the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to the fickle yield, Their furrow oft the flubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke! Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1785 - 568 pages
...knees the envied kifs to mare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke 1 Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...knees the envied blifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, The furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let no ambition mock their ufeful toil. Their homely joys, and defliny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 492 pages
...the envy'd kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has * broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! The rural day is here moft beautifully depidted : the images are fo obvious, fo natural... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did their harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team a-field ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke I Let not ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure; Nor... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1786 - 210 pages
...the envied kifs to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield. ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftroke ! Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure Nor... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 428 pages
...the envied kifs to fbare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke! How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokcf Let not ambition mock their nfcfal toil, Their homely joys, and deftiny obfcure ; Nor... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 372 pages
...to fhare. Oft did the harveft to their fickle yield, Their furrow oft the ftubborn glebe has broke j How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their fturdy ftrokc i Let not Ambition mock their ufeful toil, Their homely joys, and. deftiny obfcure ;... | |
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For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn... 
