 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...succession, i night e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled....half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled....domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain ; 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms—but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village,...half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects' the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled....withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen,1 And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...nations and, finally, the flight of the nation's children. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn. Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen And desolation saddens all thy greed; One only master grasps the whole domain And half a tillage stints thy smiling pain. . . . And... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...Deserted Village is filled with nostalgia for a lost Eden and with rage against social change. These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled....Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn. Typically the eighteenth-century writer went up to London as soon as he was able, and returned to his... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled....hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green. (lines 31-38) The semantic impoverishment is astonishing; not even nambypamby Philips wrote so simply... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...scene. (1. 1—8) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; LiTB; NOBE; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; PoEL-3; SeCePo; TEP; TrGrPo 2 eCePo; SeCP; SeCV-1; WGRP The Timber 29 But thou beneath...Of death, doth waste all senseless, cold, and dark; (1. 35-40) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1799-1832) The EH-King 1 "O father! O father! now, now, keep... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled,...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. Along thy... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...remitting,' and 'toil taught to please,' 'succeeding sports,' and 'sports with sweet succession.' V. 35. 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: One only master grasps the... | |
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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... 
