All but yon widowed, 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... Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ... - Page 494redigeeritud poolt - 1810Full view - About this book
| 1833 - 1032 lehte
...entrance to the world, now grown old and desolate, is sister in suffering to " — — yon widowed, 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, To pick her wintry fagot... | |
| 1834 - 374 lehte
...pause, the 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 the bloomy flush of life is fled, All, but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 lehte
...pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful murmurs fluetuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown footway...That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretehed matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 lehte
...vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. But now the sounds of population fail, No cheerful...steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the bloomy flush of life is fled: All but yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 lehte
...cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, But all the bloomy Croaker. An only father, »ir, might erpect 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,... | |
| 1837 - 552 lehte
...they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. " The pathetic lines— ' 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,' are supposed to apply to... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 lehte
...they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines — " 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,1' are supposed to apply... | |
| sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 lehte
...as they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines— " 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," are supposed to apply to... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 lehte
...as they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines— " 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,'* are supposed to apply... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 lehte
...they are led to believe, a more advantageous settlement in the New World. The pathetic lines — ' 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," are supposed to apply to... | |
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