| Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...ftate yon lee : And your condition may be foon like mine, — The child of forrow — and of mifery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the Lark I fprightly hail'd the morn ; Hut ah ! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter... | |
| G. Pearch - 1775 - 340 pages
...the ftate you fee : And your condition may be foon like mine, The chilli of forrow — and of mifery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the lark I fprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah t oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. ...... y 2 Lur'd by .a... | |
| John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...to the flate you fee ; And your condition may be foon like mine, The child of forrow and of mifery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the lark I fprightly hailed ihe morn f But ah! oppreffion forced me from my cot, My cattle died, ahd blighted was my com.... | |
| 1780 - 226 pages
...little farm was fny paternal lot, 71 Then like the larkl fprightly hail'd the morn} But ah! oppreflion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter—once the comfort of my age! Lur'd by a-villain from her native home., ' •Is caft abandon'd... | |
| Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...The child of forrow, and of mifery. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the lark Ifprightly hail'd the morn; But ah! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort of my age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Iscaft abandon'd... | |
| G. Pearch, Robert Dodsley - 1783 - 346 pages
...the ilate you fee : And your condition may be foon like mine, The child of forrow — and of mifery. A little farm was my paternal lot ; Then, like the...morn ; But ah ! oppreffion forc'd me from my cot, §\y cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My cfatrghter — once the comfort of my age ! Lur'd by... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...be foon like mine, The child of Sorrow and of Mifery. * A little farm was my paternal lot, Then lite the lark I fprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! oppreffion...my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter, once the comfort of iny age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is caft abandon'd... | |
| Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...foon like' mine, The child of Sorrow and of Mifery, A little farm was my paternal lor. Then like tne lark I fprightly hail'd the morn; But ah! oppreffion...my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn- My daughter, once the comfort of ray age, Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is caft abanlon'd... | |
| 1787 - 430 pages
...your breaft, Your hand could not withhold the kind relief, And tears of pity could not be reprcit. A little farm was my paternal lot, Then, like the lark, I fprightly hailed the morn, My cattle died, and blighted was my corn, My daughter, once the comfort of my age,... | |
| 1789 - 222 pages
...little farm was my paternal lot ; Then, like the lark, I sprightly hail'd the morn ; But ah ! oppression forc'd me from my cot, My cattle dy'd, and blighted was my corn. My daughter — once the comfort of my age ! Lur'd by a villain from her native home, Is cast abandon'd... | |
| |