 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
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 страници
...slew him at the door, And taught him NEVER TO COME THERE NO MORE ! — COWPER. THE POOR BOBBIN WEAVER. 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 Cuthbertson - 1886 - 486 страници
...knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. — Shah. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store. — C<nuper ' Of weaving gray-silk stockings of the webs of spiders, see the Philosophical Transactions.... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 244 страници
...Cottager, and leave you to say whether she or they be the brighter mirror of the highest truth :— " You 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,... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 320 страници
...Cottager, and leave you to say whether she or they be the brighter mirror of the highest truth : — "Yon Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, V Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 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,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - 394 страници
...same, With spirit, genius, eloquence supplied, Lived long, wrote much, laughed heartily, and died. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, — Toilsome and indigent, — she renders... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1897 - 388 страници
...written.' 12. William Cowper, comparing the poor Buckinghamshire lace- worker with Voltaire, says : Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; Just... | |
 | 1897 - 638 страници
...cottager, is well deserved: " View him at Paris in his last career, Surrounding throngs the demigod revere. "Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 586 страници
...the plague spread by bundles left behind. — The Progress of Error. THE PIOUS COTTAGER 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,... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1898 - 408 страници
...such it be. (To be continued.) (ZEnglanD's DanDicnit'ts. BY ISABEL SUART ROBSON. HAND-MADE I, ACE. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not Ray, Shuffles her threads about the live-long day.... | |
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