All but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread... Critical essays - Página 212por Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, For all the blooming flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But...bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But...solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, * For all the blooming flush of life is fled : All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashing spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread. To strip the brook with mantling... | |
| 1833 - 1032 páginas
...entrance to the world, now grown old and desolate, is sister in suffering to " — — yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from tbe thorn, To seek her nightly died, and weep till morn." These things... | |
| 1833 - 1056 páginas
...desolate, is sister in suffering to " yon widowed, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plasby spring; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn." These things... | |
| 1834 - 374 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail ; No cheerful murmurs flutter in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway tread, But all...bends beside the plashy spring. She, wretched matron, forc'd in age for bread To pick the brook, with mantling cresses spread. To pull her wintery faggot... | |
| 1834 - 426 páginas
...forgotten. It is — water-cresses. Listen to that call — "water-creeses I" It is not that of some " wretched matron forced in age for bread. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread ;" (For water-cresses in this age of improvement arc regularly cultivated like other plants), but the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, : No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn 5 To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She only left... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 páginas
...nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, t all. Leontine. An only son, sir, might eipcct more...more obedience : besides, has not your sister here, pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread,... | |
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