 | Arethusa Hall - 1849 - 230 страници
...ignorant lace-weaver, with the great intellectual distinction of the poet and philosopher, Voltaire : " 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 livelong... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 страници
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in 't at last, is praised to death. 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,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 страници
...charms of SKrtTES. literature. As they were in Cowper's day, so they are now ; and he said of them — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content, though m«an, and chevrful If not gay, Shuffling about her threads the live-long day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 страници
...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 bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | David Stow - 1850 - 536 страници
...Scripture, and one from Cowper: — ' Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifleth ; ' (buildeth up.) ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible's true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman* never knew... | |
 | Christian poets - 1851 - 470 страници
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in't at last, is prais'd to death. L 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 страници
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in 't at last, is praised to death. at every step thou store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 страници
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Von cottager, who weaves, at her own door, Pillow and bobbins, all her little store : Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her thread about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 520 страници
...fide, He begs their flattery with his lateft breath, And, fmother'd in't at laft, is praifed to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...bobbins all her little ftore, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Juft earns a fcanty pittance,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 страници
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And Bmother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. 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 livelong day,... | |
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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 livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket... 
