 Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders...  Poems - Side 44av William Cowper - 1820 - 480 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1846 - 486 sider
...the Troubadours and others, whose writings have been objects of curiosity. " О happy peasant ! О unhappy bard ! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich...perhaps, for ages yet to come, She, never heard of half a mile from home ; He, lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She, safe in the simplicity of hers." It... | |
 | William Lee - 1846 - 106 sider
...and pocket light. She for her humble sphere by nature fit, //<ts little understanding, and no wit ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that Record reads with sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. Oh, happy peasant ! oh, unhappy... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 320 sider
...humble sphere by nature fit, ' Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent) she renders...brilliant Frenchman never knew), And in that charter reads witli sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies. O happy peasant ! O unhappy bard ! His... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 sider
...humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders...sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. 330 O happy peasant ! O unhappy bard ! His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward ; He praised perhaps... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - 1889 - 196 sider
...work—- " Dull product of a scoffer's pen," with Cowper's picture in Truth of the aged cottager who " Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew." 92 WORDSWORTH. Even in that exotic masterpiece of the poet's genius, Laodameia, Protesilaos preaches... | |
 | John McNeill - 1890 - 428 sider
...livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth...sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies." Then he goes on still further to bring out the greatness of her littleness and the littleness of Voltaire's... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - 394 sider
...who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, — Toilsome and indigent, — she...perhaps for ages yet to come, She never heard of half a mile from home ; He lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She safe in the simplicity of hers ! " NATIONAL... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - 384 sider
...and bobbins all her little store, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, — Toilsome ind indigent, — she renders much; Just knows, and knows...perhaps for ages yet to come, She never heard of half a mile from home ; He lost in errors his vain heart prefers, She safe in the simplicity of hers I " NATIONAL... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1892 - 384 sider
...humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders...treasure in the skies. ' O happy peasant ! O unhappy bard I His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward ; He praised, perhaps, for ages yet to come, She never... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 sider
...and not love of them, is the backbone of any religion whatsoever, let alone the Christian. Carlylc. n den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte— Only life forms the man, and words signify litt Cmvper. Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the y.ood, for the good man desires nothing... | |
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