 Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night, Lies down secure, her heart and...  Poems - Strona 48autor: William Cowper - 1808 - Liczba stron: 438Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Mrs. Bury Palliser - 1869 - Liczba stron: 574
...CHAPTER XXIX. TUB LACE MANUFACTURES OF ENGLAND. " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow anil bobbins all her little store ; Content though mean,...Shuffling her threads about the livelong day : Just enmsa scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light." Cowper. THE bone... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1870 - Liczba stron: 502
...over the sacred page, he read it with all the faith of ' ' ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store ; Content,...gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day. She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit ; Just knows, and knows... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - Liczba stron: 382
...at last, is praised to death. II. THE HUMBLE CHRISTIAN. 3. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content',...though mean\ and cheerful', if not gay\ Shuffling her thread about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her head... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - Liczba stron: 382
...at last, is praised to death. II. THE HUMBLE CHRISTIAN. 3. Ton cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content',...though mean', and cheerful', if not gay', Shuffling her thread about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her head... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1872 - Liczba stron: 360
...breath, And smother'd in't at last, is praised to death. Von cottager, who weaves, at her own door, Pillow and bobbins, all her little store ; Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not guy, Shuffling her thread about the livelong day, Lies down secure, her heart and pocket lightJust... | |
 | William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1872 - Liczba stron: 264
...weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though mean, and eheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a seanty pittanee, and at night Lies down seeure, her heart and poeket light ; She, for her humble sphere... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1873 - Liczba stron: 264
...lines of Cowper's in which he praises a poor lace-maker : — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow, and bobbins, all her little store ; Content,...little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; yet, though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent, she renders much. Just knows, and knows no more,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - Liczba stron: 826
...he shifts the note in the following touching passage ! ' ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door Pillow and bobbins, all her little store ; Content...by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And... | |
 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 930
...cottager, who weaves at lier own door, Pillows and bobbins all her little store ; Coûtent though mean, ami Z& րذ+ . 5; 5 fF B 9] ✻ v >7 M > ) | ( 0 {Iz nigbt Lie» ilowii seeure, hef heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Нов... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - Liczba stron: 346
...breath, 315 And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content though...wit, Receives no praise, but, though her lot be such, 325 (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A... | |
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