 Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every charm...  First collection of instructive extracts - Page 198by Scottish school-book assoc - 1852Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...glorious voice ; Forever singing, as they shine, " The hand that made us is divine." IV. — Rural Charms. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain ; Where health and plenty cheer'd the lab'ring awain | Where smiling spring its earliest visits paid, And parting summer's lingVing blooms... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 1789. n dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,...diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyra ling'ring blooms delay'd; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...plenty cheered the labouring Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's linking blooms delay'd ; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and...could please ; How often have I loiter'd o'er thy preen, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene! How often have I paus'd on everj charm, The shelter'd... | |
 | Shropshire gazetteer - 1824 - 1028 pages
...the beautiful description Goldsmith gives of Auburn, which forms an opening to that inimitable poem, the Deserted Village : " Sweet AUBURN ! loveliest...of the plain, " Where health and plenty cheer*d the lab'ring swain, " Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, " And parting summer's ling'ring blooms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...wish to be in the right. I am, dear Sir, your sincere friend, and ardent admirer, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village...youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loiter d o'er thy green, WThere humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paused on every... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pages
...country, and have seen it in this. He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning : — i! Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of...youth, when every sport could please* How often have I loiter' d o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene \ How often have I paused on every... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 pages
...spring its earliest visit paid [swain, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd: Dear lovely bow'rs of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please How often have 1 loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I paus'd on... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...DESERTED VILLAGE. l 769. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty eheer'd nd To win h ling'ring blooms delay'd ; Dear lovely bowers of innoeenee and ease, Seats of my youth, when every... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...truth ; At least he yielded, and confess'd That all was ordei-'d for the best.' WILKIB. SECTION V. The deserted Village. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health aftd plenty cheer'd the lab'ring swain ; T 2 Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting... | |
 | 1825 - 610 pages
...own country, and have seen it in this.' He then read what he had done of it that morning, beginning, 'Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when ever)- sport could please, How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'n... | |
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