 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
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 792
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. 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,... | |
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 778
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty ot" judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not pay, Shuffling her threads about, the live- long... | |
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 786
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. 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,... | |
 | John William Lester - 1848 - Počet stránok 112
...contrast between the simple peasant and the witty Voltaire, what mild lustre glows in every line : — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content tho' mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just... | |
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 780
...and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. ' Ton 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - Počet stránok 740
...every 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 not gay, Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1849 - Počet stránok 230
...ignorant lace-weaver, with the great intellectual distinction of the poet and philosopher, 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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - Počet stránok 1126
...charms of SKrtTES. literature. As they were in Cowper's day, so they are now ; and he said of them — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content, though m«an, and chevrful If not gay, Shuffling about her threads the live-long day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - Počet stránok 516
...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,... | |
 | David Stow - 1850 - Počet stránok 536
...Scripture, and one from Cowper: — ' Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifleth ; ' (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... | |
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