Sweet smiling village ! loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green ! One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy... The book of poetry [ed. by B.G. Johns]. - Seite 28von Book - 1847 - 186 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms arefled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs thy tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the... | |
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...Village'1 written nearly sixty years ago, already saw, what has been seen in ten-fold horrors since : — " One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints [the] smiling plain ..... The man of wealth and pride Tafós up a space that many poor «applied ;... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...their cheerful influence shed; These were thy charms— But all these charms are" fled. Sweet amiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled,...master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage ;-uni- thy smiling plain ; No more thy glawy brook reflects the day, But chok'd with sedges works its... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...round thy bowers their cheerful influence *** These were thy charms — but all these charms are Sed. d from a diminution of useless sinecures, bow might...greatest upon earth ! But while I would reward the Ar.d half a tillage «tints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked... | |
| Friedrich von Matthisson - 1835 - 746 Seiten
...einflfo gl№ lid) frlííDenbí И u 6 ut il! Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lavn, Tljy sports Are fled , and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green. tí» Sine jungt Jftau, trauetno «m (en gtd'ebten, in bet ffiliitijc bit íefcené if;r burd) ben... | |
| John Grigg Hewlett - 1835 - 254 Seiten
...to cheer, enliven, and regenerate the nations. EFFECTS OF " THE PLOUGH ;" OR, THE DESERTED VILLAGE. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn ! Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant s hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green : Sunk are thy bow 'rs in shapeless... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 Seiten
...round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms—but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 Seiten
...thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen/'2) And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a... | |
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