 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...dame, Which, ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came; Such favor did her past deportment claim : And if neglect had...could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crum she found. Herbs, too, she knew, and well of each could speak, That in her garden sipp'd the silv'ry... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 pagina’s
...plodding pattern of the busy dame ; Which, ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, hegirt with chickens, came ! Such favour did her past deportment...Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For veil she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 pagina’s
...the husy dame; Which, ever and anon, impell'd hy need, Into her school, hegirt with chickens, cam£! Such favour did her past deportment claim: And, if Neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment of hread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, Alheit ne flattery... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 418 pagina’s
...delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame ; Which, ever .and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came ; Such favour...expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sip'd the silvery dew ; Where no... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagina’s
...delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame, Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came, .Such favour...could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest cruui she found. Herbs too she knew, and well of each could speak That in her garden sipp'd the silvery... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame ; Which, ever and anon, impelled by need, Into lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, ehe would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pagina’s
...delight to feed, The plodding pattern ot the busy dame. Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came, Such favour...the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the ига?, For well she knew, and quaintly could expound ; What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagina’s
...came; Such favor did her past deportment claim; And, if neglect had lavished on the ground Fragments of bread, she would collect the same, For well she...sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found. Here oft the dame, on Sabbath's decent eve. Hymned such psalms as Sternhold forth did mete; If winter... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...delight to feed, I The plodding pattern of the busy dame ; Which, ever and anon, impelled by need, Into hU understanding. And from every mental energy that is not attended with pain, and even from lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well ehe knew, and quaintly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pagina’s
...the busy dame ; Which, ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, cane ; h veteran rule he prized, And all improvement haughtily despised : Yet though f gronnd Fragment of bread, she would collect the sarns ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound,... | |
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One ancient hen she took delight to feed, The plodding pattern of the busy dame, Which ever and anon, impell'd by need, Into her school, begirt with chickens, came; Such favour did her past deportment claim: And if neglect had lavish'd on the ground Fragment... 
