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" For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. "
The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ... - Page 404
by George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 436 pages
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Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...Geo. ii. 523. and the elegiac Muse of Gray has imbibed the very spirit of the Roman: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Thomson has thus depicted circumstances of a congenial nature : Jri vain for him the officious...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...refreshing. Cock's shrill clarion, — or trumpet. Echoing horn — of the huntsman. vI. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,' Or busy housewife...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. Housewife — properly means the wife, who v. who takts care of the lioflse : it sometimes...
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The grave, a poem. To which are added An elegy in a country church-yard, by ...

Robert Blair - 1804 - 132 pages
...heap-, Each in liii narrow cell for ever laid, 'I he.ru tie lurcialheis of the hamlet sleep. ELEGY 29 The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow...echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care;...
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The Works of Thomas Gray: Containing His Poems, and Correspondence ..., Volume 1

Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;...
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Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 6

James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...person of taste or good manners. When one hears the following lines, which abound in poetical words, The breezy call of incense-breathing morn, The swallow...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouze them from their lowly bed: one is as sensible of the dignity of the language, as one would be...
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A Criticism of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

John Young - Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 - 1810 - 432 pages
...clarion, and the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. VI. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. VII. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield ; Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 14

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Mallet, Akenside ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...shrill clarion, or the cchom? horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply...to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the entied kin to «hare. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: W. Thompson, Blair ...

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 686 pages
...clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. Por them no more the hla/ing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke!...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...hurn, No more shall rouse them from their luv\ly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall bum, Ur re his eyes. Hark ! Orpheus strikes the lyre again. That softens to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;...
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