...side to produce the desired ' sprig ' or ' border.' We see here what recalls Cowper's lines — " ' 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,...

...their first publication, Hazlitt was to quote 'an exquisite piece of eloquence and poetry' from them: 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,...

...Cowper was presenting the lacemaker (in a poem called 'Truth') as the type of the 'deserving poor': 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,...