 Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and...  Lectures on the English Poets - Стр. 190авторы: William Hazlitt - 1892 - Страниц: 342Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - Страниц: 826
..." the demigod Voltaire," how dexterously he shifts the note in the following touching passage ! ' ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door Pillow and...by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And... | |
 | 1873 - Страниц: 930
...cottager, who weaves at lier own door, Pillows and bobbins all her little store ; Coûtent though mean, ami Z& րذ+ . 5; 5 fF B 9] ✻ v >7 M > ) | ( 0 {Iz nigbt Lie» ilowii seeure, hef heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Нов... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - Страниц: 330
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 320 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1874 - Страниц: 510
...of apparel high (WORDSWORTH, W. ed. 1836, 3, 34.) (au imitation of Skelton I. 31.). Yon cottager . . Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. (Cowp. p. 47.). — Thence more at eaue their minds, and somewhat rais'd By false presumptuous hope,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - Страниц: 340
...pride, And fumed with frankincense on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 330 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1874 - Страниц: 512
...of apparel high (WORDSWORTH, W. ed. 1836, 3, 34.) (an imitation of Skelton I. 31.). Yon cott&ger . . Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and packet light (Cowp. p. 47.). — Thence more at ease their minds, and somewhat rais'd By false presumptuous... | |
 | 1874 - Страниц: 608
...as a little child, he shall not enter therein.' He then spoke of the poor cottager of Cowper, who, ' For her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - Страниц: 858
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath. And, smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her thread about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - Страниц: 474
...Voltaire and the poor cottager, are exquisite pieces of eloquence and poetry, particularly the last : " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit, Keceives no praise ; but, though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much ; Just knows,... | |
 | George Henry Whittemore - 1876 - Страниц: 336
...also his Truth. Had we gone there we should have seen the same sight still perpetuated, of: — — 'Yon Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow...about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, Receives no praise ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — And in that charter reads with... | |
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