 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
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 1036
...superior culture," and have cast our eyes upon the heading of our theme — " MIND among the Spindles." " 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,... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 1026
...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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - Počet stránok 484
...every side, He hegs 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 Hazlitt - 1845 - Počet stránok 510
...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,... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - Počet stránok 922
...wasted oil unprofitably burns, like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. THE LACE-WORKER AND VOLTAIRE. 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 Hazlitt - 1845 - Počet stránok 512
...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,... | |
 | 1846 - Počet stránok 634
...life cternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast eent." " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not eay— * * * * * » Just knows, and knows no more,... | |
 | David Stow - 1846 - Počet stránok 562
...Scripture, and one from Cowper;— " Knowledge puft'eth up, but charity edifieth." (buildeth up.) " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store. Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible's true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman * never knew... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - Počet stránok 510
...devise, as the order of the universe is superior to the greatest efforts of man's artificial skill. " 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 - 1847 - Počet stránok 556
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Von 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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