 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
 | Entries - 1853 - 320 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 Cowper - 1853 - 382 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 livelong day,... | |
 | Alexander Wallace - 1853 - 312 страници
...of glory about to be revealed. Turn to another scene, so beautifully described by Cowper : — " Ton 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 - 1854 - 586 страници
...passage from Scripture, and one from Cowper : — " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth ;" ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Ju«t knowi, and know* no more, her Bible's true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman* never... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 страници
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd m'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,... | |
 | George Paxton Young - 1854 - 356 страници
...Christian cottager. After referring to the Frenchman's infidelity, he gives the opposite picture : — " 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 Cumming - 1854 - 398 страници
...salvation of the guilty, the hope of the dying; the ornament, the dignity, the glory, of the human race. " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit; Just knows,... | |
 | Thomas Croxen Archer - 1854 - 286 страници
...the dark scenes of life, which for our comfort is best hidden. We will look to a brighter picture. " 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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 страници
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, A nd 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 livelong day,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 410 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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