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... Poems - Страница 89по William Cowper - 1782 - 359 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| George Ripley - 1840 - 414 страници
...not besieged the libraries of the learned, to ask them whether they might believe in Christ or no. 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 260 страници
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And smother'd in't at last, is prals'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,... | |
| 1845 - 1036 страници
...superior culture," and have cast our eyes upon the heading of our theme — " MIND among the Spindles." " 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,... | |
| 1856 - 1026 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 live-long day,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 страници
...side, He hegs 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,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 страници
...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 bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 страници
...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 bobbins all her little store; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 страници
...wasted oil unprofitably burns, like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. THE LACE-WORKER AND 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 day,... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 страници
...devise, as the order of the universe is superior to the greatest efforts of man's artificial skill. " 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,... | |
| 1846 - 634 страници
...life cternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast eent." " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not eay— * * * * * » Just knows, and knows no more,... | |
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