 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn;...domain,'' And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; 7 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choaked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along... | |
 | English poetry - 2000 - 194 pages
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 | Thomas Gray - 2000 - 196 pages
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 | Literary Criticism - 230 pages
...and the "unvaried lapwing cries," as in the following passage from Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half...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 thy desert... | |
 | John Carrington - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...pastoral and — probably - nostalgic memories of Goldsmith's Irish childhood. Now it is destroyed: Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen And desolation...reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way. The sentiments are strongly felt. But Goldsmith's descriptions of the 'charm' (his own word) of... | |
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Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, /And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, , And half a tillage stints... 
