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" The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would... "
A first (A second) course of English composition - Page 135
by John Hugh Hawley - 1865
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The hashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. These...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 2

1840 - 368 pages
...pair, that simply sought renown, By holding out, to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd...succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tie each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd...The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. [like these, These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports With sweet succession, taught e'en toil...
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The third book of reading lessons, Volume 3

Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place. These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like...succession taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed; These were thy charms—but all these charms are fled. Cultivate...
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd...; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matrou'sglancethatwould those looks reprove. These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 51

1842 - 1552 pages
...largely upon the pages of Maga. We will, therefore content ourselves with noticing a few. Plate V: ¥ " The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove," &c. This is a very pleasing homely scene, etched by HJ Townsend. The lines are well charactered —...
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The Englishman's magazine [ed. by W. H. T.].

1843
...dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down : The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's aide-long looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms,...
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The North of England Magazine, Volume 1

1842 - 608 pages
...mistrustless of his smutted face, \Vhile secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgins' sidelong looks of love ; The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. In all the joyousness, the tenderness, and almost the vitality of nature, they are here. Look at Tayler's...
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Perennial Flowers

1843 - 184 pages
...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There, as...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of lore, one on Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up youndcr hill the village murmur rose ; There...
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