 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...accent where to place? And speak in public with some sort of grace? 5468 Pope : Satire v. Line 201. Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 5469 Gifford: Contemplation... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Contemplation. i If naebody care for me, I '11 care for nacbody. — Bums, / Iiae a Wife o' my Ain. - All at her work the village maiden sings, Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around. Altered by Johnson. * Compare Sterne. Page 322. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794. History, which is, indeed,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 544 páginas
...warrant you," said Dr. Johnson, "one of the songs of Ossian." He then repeated these lines : — " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at...wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." I thought I had heard these lines before. JOHNSON. " I fancy not, Sir ; for they are in a detached... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 690 páginas
...his own song, however rude it may be, that softens his labor. E. Glfford's " Contemplation ":— " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." THE ILLITERATE. In short it has become a proverb amongst the Greeks, that... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 464 páginas
...Johnson was so fond of quoting, and really it is so good that I will transcribe the whole of it: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound— All...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." Verse, it seems, can sweeten the toil of slaves in a tobacco factory. " We... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1884 - 694 páginas
...his own song, however rude it may be, that softens his labor. B. Gifford's " Contemplation " : — " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; All at...sings, Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Bevolves the sad vicissitudes of things." THE ILLITEBATE. In short it has become a proverb amongst... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1884 - 440 páginas
...so good that I will transcribe the whole of it: " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound — AH at her work the village maiden sings, Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." Verse, it seems, can sweeten the toil of slaves in a tobacco factory. " We... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 páginas
...source of the lines, which he repeated, on hearing a girl at Nairn singing over her spinning-wheel. " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." On one occasion, when driving with a friend at Brighton, he repeated with... | |
 | 1894 - 962 páginas
...: ' I'll warrant you (said Dr. Johnson) one of the songs of Ossian.' He then repeated these lines : Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at...the village maiden sings ; Nor. while she turns the giildy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. " ' I thought I had heard these lines.'... | |
 | Francis Richard Charles Grant - 1887 - 216 páginas
...a girl at Nairn singing over her spinning-wheel. " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; AH at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." On one occasion, when driving with a friend at Brighton, he repeated with... | |
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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things. 
