 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
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 948
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1905 - Počet stránok 1266
...lace-sticks from side to side to produce sprig or border — a worker recalling the lines of Cowper : ' 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Mincoff, Margaret S. Marriage - 1907 - Počet stránok 356
...itself, then repeat from the beginning. NO-'. I8-2O. TOKCHON LACEi CHAPTER IX MALTESE AND CLUNY LACE Yon Cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling the threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | Clarence Augustus Barbour - 1911 - Počet stránok 244
...impressive passages. 8. William Cowper, comparing the poor Buckinghamshire lace-worker with Voltaire, says : Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; Just... | |
 | 1911 - Počet stránok 344
...at Cobham Lady Darnley's Lace Class at Work LACE BOBBINS By "FINDER" do the loves, joys, and the " 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,... | |
 | Frank Boreham - 1918 - Počet stránok 280
...bring his new sermon to a close. Perhaps Cowper's Cottager will furnish him with a fitting climax : 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,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - Počet stránok 744
...me of enjoyments past, And those of sorrows yet to come. Written 1773 ; Poems, 1782 349 Simple Faith 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1928 - Počet stránok 406
...Voltaire and the poor cottager, are exquisite pieces of eloquence and poetry, particularly the last. ' 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,... | |
 | 1900 - Počet stránok 1004
...following extract from Cowper's "Truth" contains four of the lines about which inquiry is made . " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store : Content though mean, and cheerful it not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day,... | |
 | 1908 - Počet stránok 434
...more metrical ease. One short extract points the contrast between Voltaire and a Lacemaker : — i 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,... | |
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