 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill ; Yet would the village praise my wond'rous pow'r, And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all...• : Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore. How often have I led thy sportive choir With tuneless pipe, f\f 1 So blest a life these thoughtless... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill, Yet would the village praise my wond'rous power, And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour ! Alike...grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. So gay a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their world... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...fkill, And haply, though my harfh touch falt'ring ftill Yet would the village praife my wondrous power, And dance forgetful of the noon-tide hour ! Alike...their children through the mirthful maze: And the gay grandfire, ikill'd in geftic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threefcore. So gay a life thefe... | |
 | Edward Planta - 1816 - 318 pages
...society on this side the water. The promenade and the dance are the Frenchman's chief pleasures. " Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze j. And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden uf three score." HISTORY... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'tl the dancer's skill . Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike...gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd heneath the burden of- threescore. So bright a life tbtisc thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy... | |
 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please, Alike all ages, dames of ancient day« Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skilTd in gettic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore." Then the Spaniards — would... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...mocked all tune, and marred the dancer's skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, Aid dance forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages....through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill ; Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all...grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill; Yet would the village praise my wonci'rous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike all ages ; dames of ancient d^ys Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill ; Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour. Alike...And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frjsk'd beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly... | |
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And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noontide hour. Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children... 
