 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
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 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,... | |
 | C. C. Channer, M. E. Roberts - 1900 - 190 страници
...click-clack of her bobbins sounding mournfully through the now deserted room. LACE-MAKERS AT HOME " 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 Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 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 livelong day,... | |
 | Arthur Max Hantsche - 1901 - 160 страници
...modernen Elends gegenüber wirkt die rüstige, arme doch zufriedene Bauersfrau äusserst wohlthuend : »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,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 444 страници
...vain ; Qod is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. THE Pious COTTAGER AND VOLTAXEB. 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 444 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 Cowper - 1905 - 948 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,... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1905 - 1266 страници
...lace-sticks from side to side to produce sprig or border — a worker recalling the lines of Cowper : ' 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Mincoff, Margaret S. Marriage - 1907 - 356 страници
...itself, then repeat from the beginning. NO-'. I8-2O. TOKCHON LACEi CHAPTER IX MALTESE AND CLUNY LACE Yon Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling the threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | 1911 - 344 страници
...at Cobham Lady Darnley's Lace Class at Work LACE BOBBINS By "FINDER" do the loves, joys, and the " 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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