Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy... Poetical Works - Page 28by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 lehteFull view - About this book
| 1837 - 496 lehte
...blood — and even to Oh ! I shall not meet Cazotte again with pleasure !'' CHAP. II. The Breakfcut. " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green." Deserted Village. Marie Antoinette, who, simple and we might add unprecedented in her tastes, had become... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 lehte
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, [fled. These were thy charms — But all these charms are William Hazlitt( chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
| 1824 - 398 lehte
...could not help observing was pronounced by my companion with peculiar feeling and emphasis : — " Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain." Mr. Willis noticed my surprise. " I suspect," said he, " you are not aware of the classical neighbourhood... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 lehte
...charmi — But all these charnu are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sporte are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; .Amidst thy...seen* And Desolation saddens all thy green : One only muter grasps the whole domain. And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 lehte
...round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,...plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 lehte
...village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn : Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens...stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook refleets the day, But chok'd with sedges works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 lehte
...round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms, — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village ! loveliest of the lawn,...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...round thy bowers their eheerful influenee shed, These were thy eharms — But all these eharms are Wakes thee now ? though he inherit Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eharms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green... | |
| 1826 - 300 lehte
...round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms arefled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs thy tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
| 846 lehte
...Village'1 written nearly sixty years ago, already saw, what has been seen in ten-fold horrors since : — " One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints [the] smiling plain ..... The man of wealth and pride Tafós up a space that many poor «applied ;... | |
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