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" Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, 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... "
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The Poetical Melange

English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...with unheeded tears, And crippled age, with more than childhood fears ! The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman...
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The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With Life

George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears ; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman...
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Beauties of the Rev. George Crabbe. With a Biographical Sketch

George Crabbe - 1832 - 152 pages
...There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; The children dwell who know no parents' care — Parents,...with unheeded tears, And crippled age, with more than childhood's fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman...
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Cullings from Crabbe: With a Memoir of His Life and Notices of His Writings

George Crabbe - 1832 - 92 pages
...Parish- Poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and^mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled Age, with more than childhood...
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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe: With His Letters and ..., Volume 2

George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the...with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears ; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot, and the madman...
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A visit to Iceland by way of Tronyem, in the summer of 1834

John Barrow - 1835 - 376 pages
...the inhabitants of Reikiavik, whose good conduct rendered such a place unnecessary— a place " Where children dwell, who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there." Like all sea-port towns, however, Reikiavik is not free from the vice of drunkenness, which is by no...
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A Visit to Iceland: By Way of Tronyem, in the "Flower of Yarrow" Yacht, in ...

John Barrow - Iceland - 1835 - 370 pages
...inhabitants of Reikiavik, whose good conduct rendered such a place unnecessary — a place " Where children dwell, who know no parents' care ; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there." Like all sea-port towns, however, Reikiavik is not free from the vice of drunkenness, which is by no...
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The County [afterw.] Country miscellany, ed. by H. Burgess

Henry Burgess (of Luton) - 1836 - 446 pages
...enumerated the different classes in a workhouse as follows;— " There children dwell who know no parent's care; Parents who know no children's love, dwell there...with unheeded tears, And crippled age with more than childhood fears; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they ! The moping idiot and the madman...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Leonard Withington - Digital images - 1836 - 532 pages
...play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ; There children dwell, who know no parent's care, Parents, who know no children's love, dwell...matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mother's never wed ; The lame, the blind, and, far the happiest they, The moping idiot and the madman...
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The Puritan: A Series of Essays, Critical, Moral, and Miscellaneous, Volume 1

Leonard Withington - American essays - 1836 - 260 pages
...described its interior and local condition exactly. It stood, there " Where the putrid vapors flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ; There children dwell, who know no parent's care, Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless...
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