 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, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and...  Church of Scotland magazine and review - Página 248de Scotland Church of - 1853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 264 páginas
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...gay Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 320 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 262 páginas
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, 315 And smother d in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...gay Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, 320 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 páginas
...the Creation. When you put a clean pillowaue on your lady's pillow, fasten it well with pins. Sicift. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. Cowptr. PILNITZ, a town of Upper Saxony, memorable for the treaty entered into between the emperor... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 páginas
...your lady's pillow, fasten it well with pins. Swift. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, I'illaw and bobbins all her little store ; Content though...night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. Coirper. PILNITZ, a town of Upper Saxony, memorable for the treaty entered into between the emperor... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 páginas
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at, Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and...gay,. Shuffling her threads about, the live-long day, y Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light, She for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...breath, And smothered in 't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own dpor, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content...mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads almut the livelong day, Just corns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and... | |
 | Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 páginas
...side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is prais'd to death. Yon Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, L Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 páginas
...side He begs their flatt'ry with his latest breath' And smother-d in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door Pillow and...pocket light • She, for her humble sphere by nature at, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, loilsome... | |
 | Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 páginas
...bard of Olney with some of his happy thoughts, as it was carried on in every street and cottage.— " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and...night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light." So it is with straw plat; in certain districts it is almost as conspicuous as the wall-flowers, daisies,... | |
 | 1841 - 538 páginas
...its veracity. There is much both of poetry and philosophy, in the following lines of Cowper : — " She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true ; (A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew !) And... | |
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