How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed;... Elegant Extracts - Page 198edited by - 1809Full view - About this book
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour -free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And'tnany a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
| Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...blessed the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play; And all the village train, from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree. While many a pastime circled in the shade The young1 coittemtiug as the old surveyed And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground And sleights of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pages
...blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play; And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
| John Norton-Smith - 1983 - 164 pages
...'d the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree;...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
| Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - 1988 - 310 pages
...the genial egalitarian scenes an emparking landlord had erased And all the village train, from labour free. Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree:...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd;47 - are episodes in the poems John Clare wrote against Parliamentary enclosure : Thou art... | |
| Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
...blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree;...survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And flights of an, and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its tum to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength... | |
| Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree,...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
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