...health, warmth, or decency. Theirs is yon house, that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours...play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day. Such is that room which one rude beam divides, And naked rafters form the sloping sides : Where the...

...holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the hroken door ; There, where the putrid vapors flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day, There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents who know no children's love dwell there; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless...

...From ' The VtSage.' Theirs is yon house that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud ecnrce bears the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours,...through the day ; There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parent-, who know no children's love, dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless...

...her children, but to leave them to the care of servants. Of such a family it may truly be said — "There children dwell who know no parent's care; Parents who know no children's love dwell there." Orabbe. 788. If a mother did but know the happiness that suckling her babe imparts, she would never...

...the reader shudder — " Theirs is yon House that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours,...Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there I Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood's fears ; The lame,...

...Crabbc, an English writer of a century ago, so graphically describes in his poem, " The Village." " There children dwell who know no parent's care •...children's love dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons in their joyless bed ; Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows, with unheeded tears...

...Theirs is yon house that holds the parish poor, Whoso walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; 230 There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through tho day ; — There children dwell who know no parents' care ; Parents, who know no children's love,...

...of a country workhouse could never be forgotten by any who had once read it : — "There, whero tho putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day," nor could the story of Phoebe Dawson. Crabbe was a man of extreme gentleness and meekness, who never...

...the end of last century, we can see yon house that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mnd scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours...play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day. 23. Crabbe's style, like the style of every genuine writer and thinker, is not to be dissociated from...

...pariah poor. Whose wall» of mud ncarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid таронгв flagging play. And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parent'« саге ; Parent«, who know no children'» love, dwell there ; Heart broken matron» on...