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. The Quarterly Review - Side 100redigert av - 1832Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 sider
...one Gifrard, clergyman ; but the poem in which they are i traduced has hitherto been undiscovered : ' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound All at her work the village maideu sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel arouud, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things."... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 604 sider
..."I'll warrant you," said Dr. Johnson, " one of the songs of Ossiau." He then repeated these lines : " he and a few more agreed to go and dine in the country,...Charles Townshend asked Fitzherbert to go with him '." I thought I had heard these lines before. JOHKSON. " I fancy not, sir; for they are in a detached... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 348 sider
...Giffard, a clergymen; but the poem in which they are introduced has hitherto been undiscovered : — *' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All...wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Philip Metcalfe... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 406 sider
...forgiven all the wrongful decrees which he pronounced in criticism, for having preserved this stanza67: Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. A sweeter stanza never was composed : but apart from the pensive reflection... | |
| John Hannah - 1837 - 46 sider
...reason to believe that (Le Doggie would sing over his work : for what saith one Gifford, a Parson ? t " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All...wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." I would propose for maiden, to read mastiff', which would explain the words, " however rude the sound,"... | |
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 sider
...forgiven all the wrongful decrees which he pronounced in criticism, for having preserved this stanza: 67 Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound: All at...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. A sweeter stanza never was composed : but apart from the pensive reflection... | |
| Robert Southey - 1839 - 382 sider
...forgiven all the wrongful decrees which he pronounced in criticism, for having preserved this stanza: 67 Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound: All at...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. A sweeter stanza never was composed : but apart from the pensive reflection... | |
| William Fullerton Cumming - 1839 - 838 sider
...chained galley-slave soft are the strains of music, and the bitterness of exile is sweetened by song. Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All...work the village maiden sings, Nor while she turns tho giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." But I am wandering from my subject.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 sider
...forgiven all the wrongful decrees which he pronounced in criticism, for having preserved this stanza : 67 Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All...she turns the giddy wheel around. Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. A sweeter stanza never was composed : but apart from the pensive reflection... | |
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