 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 livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket...  Poems - Strana 89podľa William Cowper - 1788Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 648
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And, smothered in 't at last, is praised to death. 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 livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1885 - Počet stránok 352
...ev'ry side, He begs their flattery 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 bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful, if notg.iy, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - Počet stránok 612
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And, smothered in 't at last, is praised to death. 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 livelong day,... | |
 | Maurice Charles Hime - 1885 - Počet stránok 132
...deep, too pure to be described in words —the peace which admittedly "passeth all understanding." " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, . • Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay— She, for her humble sphere by nature fit,... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - Počet stránok 370
...slew him at the door, And taught him NEVER TO COME THERE NO MORE ! — COWPER. THE POOR BOBBIN WEAVER. 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 livelong day,... | |
 | John Cuthbertson - 1886 - Počet stránok 486
...knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it. — Shah. Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store. — C<nuper ' Of weaving gray-silk stockings of the webs of spiders, see the Philosophical Transactions.... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - Počet stránok 244
...Cottager, and leave you to say whether she or they be the brighter mirror of the highest truth :— " You 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 livelong day,... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - Počet stránok 320
...Cottager, and leave you to say whether she or they be the brighter mirror of the highest truth : — "Yon Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, V Content though mean, and cheerful, if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - Počet stránok 632
...on every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. 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,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1891 - Počet stránok 394
...same, With spirit, genius, eloquence supplied, Lived long, wrote much, laughed heartily, and died. Yon cottager, 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 renders... | |
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