 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 590 Seiten
...the plashy spring : She, wretched matron, forced in age, for brend, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the peusive plain, Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 Seiten
...forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man ho was to all the country dear, And passing rich... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 Seiten
...wretehed matron, fore'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn. Goldsmith's Daerted Village. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'seape the pressure of... | |
 | 1855 - 248 Seiten
...style, and disappear ; The stiller sound succeeds, and God is there. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. GOLDSMITH. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...example: But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; . . . She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; .... | |
 | Donna Landry - 1990 - 344 Seiten
...Shepherd's Week] She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain.2 (Oliver. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village) On those occasions when the laboring woman has appeared... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 Seiten
...speaker encounters an old beggar-woman, who evidently reminds him of the real people who have gone: "She only left of all the harmless train, / The sad historian of the pensive plain" (lines 135 - 36). This last line is the key and was early recognized as such, being chosen for illustration... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...occasion [Scott's note]. She wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shade, and weep till mom ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 Seiten
...the plashy spring; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread," To pick her wintry faggot from the...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 80 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild.... | |
 | Sean Dunne - 1957 - 496 Seiten
...the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
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She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the... 
