 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1904 - 304 pages
...the poor lived in England in the latter part of the eighteenth century. It was he who wrote: — , " Ye gentle souls who dream of rural ease, Whom the...the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within — ask if peace be there: If peace be his, that drooping weary sire; Or theirs, that offspring round... | |
 | 1905 - 584 pages
...truth become impatient. THE VILLAGE. GEORGE CRABBE. THE VILLAGE POOR. FROM BOOK I. (First Edition.) YE gentle souls who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoothei sonnet please ; Go 1 if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 600 pages
...stinted meal. Addressing the well-to-do admirers of pastoral poems, the indignant satirist exclaims : Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the...whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand.1 Of what avail, in the midst of all this sadness, are the " few hours of sweet... | |
 | René Louis Huchon - 1907 - 596 pages
...Addressing the well-to-do admirers of pastoral poems, the indignant satirist exclaims : Ye gentlesouTs, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and...whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand.1 Of what avail, in the midst of all this sadness, are the " few hours of sweet... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1908 - 356 pages
...to see rural life as it was in the eighteenth century and not rural life as the poet idealized it. " Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the...whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand!" And yet this was the same country, and the same century, in which Gray could write... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1908 - 642 pages
...Homely, not wholesome, plain, not plenteous, sucli As you who praise would never deign to touch. iTf Xe gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please ; • По ! if the peaceful cot your praises share, flo look within, and ask if peace be there ; j... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 pages
...Homely, not wholesome, plain, not plenteous. such 170 As you who praise, would never deign to touch. ' independent mind, He looks and laughs at a' that....Their dignities, an' a* that, 3° The pith o' sense, '77 Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth the expiring brand.... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...Homely, not wholesome, plain, not plenteous, such 170 As you who praise would never deign to touch. Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the...whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand ! Nor yet can Time itself obtain for these 180 Life's latest comforts, due respect... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...his winding shore, And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. 4378 Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 181. Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the...whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth, th' expiring brand ! 4379 Crabbe : Village. Bk. i. Line 172 3. SABBATH. The Sabbath bell, That over... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - 1911 - 1196 pages
...Homely, not wholesome, plain, not plenteous. such 170 As you who praise, would never deign to touch. Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; Go I if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there; If peace be his,... | |
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Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; Go! if the peaceful cot your praises share, Go look within, and ask if peace be there; If peace be his — that drooping weary sire, Or theirs, that offspring... 
