 She, wretched matron, 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 till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive...  The Fifth Progressive Reader - Seite 274von Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 Seiten
...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 shed, and weep...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ;... | |
 | Regina Maria Roche - 1820 - 322 Seiten
...doomed her in age— " To strip the brook, with man! ling cresses spread ; To pick her wintry fitggot from the thorn ; To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn." At another time, and Mrs. Stovendale, but too susceptible, would have lent a patient as well as a pitying... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...flush of life is fled. All but yon widowed solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To...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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 Seiten
...yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring; 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 shed, and weep till morn : She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | 1821 - 456 Seiten
...The widow'd solitary thing That feebly bent beside the plnshy spring ; The wretched matron forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.' 1 am told that there are some individuals who can point out to you the site of the modest mansion of... | |
 | 1820 - 696 Seiten
...The widow'd solitary thing That feebly bent beside the plashy spring ; The wretched matron forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread.' 1 am told that there are some individuals who can point out to you the site of the modest mansion of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 Seiten
...of life is fled ; AH hut yon widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 Seiten
...flush of life is fled: All but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring: She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...widow'd, solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the splashing spring ; 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 shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless... | |
 | 1823 - 732 Seiten
...of life is fled — All but yon widow'd solitary thing, That feebly bends beside the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread. Scott. Our author'slanguage, in this place, is very defective in correctness. After mentioning the... | |
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