 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: By William Cowper, ... In Two Volumes. ... - Strana 67podľa William Cowper - 1787Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Book - 1854 - Počet stránok 496
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, A nd 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 livelong day,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - Počet stránok 476
...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,... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - Počet stránok 476
...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,... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - Počet stránok 410
...study the contrast to see where is the finger of God. It is well given by our great English poet : — "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 Cumming - 1854 - Počet stránok 398
...salvation of the guilty, the hope of the dying; the ornament, the dignity, the glory, of the human race. " Yon cottager who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit; Just knows,... | |
 | David Stow - 1854 - Počet stránok 586
...passage from Scripture, and one from Cowper : — " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth ;" ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Ju«t knowi, and know* no more, her Bible's true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman* never... | |
 | Thomas Croxen Archer - 1854 - Počet stránok 286
...the dark scenes of life, which for our comfort is best hidden. We will look to a brighter picture. " 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... | |
 | George Paxton Young - 1854 - Počet stránok 356
...Christian cottager. After referring to the Frenchman's infidelity, he gives the opposite picture : — " 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1866 - Počet stránok 384
...meanings ever rich and strange, Or lighten'd glory in the place. Gerald Massey. Content in lowly Sphere. 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,... | |
 | Kate Gordon (of Fyvie.) - 1866 - Počet stránok 258
...town of Italy. 9. The art of sweetening. 10. Immortal. 11. A fellow-preacher with Paul. LXVL l 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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