 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
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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, and... | |
 | William Harrison - 1853 - 214 страници
...happily expresses it, in his well known lines, when contrasting Voltaire with the English villager — " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins, all her little store, Just knows enough — no more — her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew."... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 800 страници
...He begs their (lattery with his latest breath, 315 And smothcr'd in't ot last, is pr*is'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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1853 - 804 страници
...study the contrast to see where is the finger of God. It is well given by our great English poet — ' 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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