 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...store ; Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the lire-long day, ' Lord Wilmington. These thoughts, 0 Night ! are...poets feign, In shadows veiled, soft, sliding from h ; bat though her lot be euch (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more,... | |
 | John Spencer Pearsall - 1844 - 178 pagina’s
...the one class was lost in errors which a vain heart prefers, whilst the other, safe in simplicity " Has little understanding, and no wit, " Receives no...; " Just knows, and knows no more her bible true. Congregationalism is eminently conducive to civilization. Whilst it has proved the true friend to innumerable... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...— Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not gay,2 Shuffling her threads about the live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down...be such, (Toilsome and indigent,) she renders much ;3 Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman4 never knew ;... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pagina’s
...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...by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit ; Keceives no praise ; but though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigent), she renders much ; Just... | |
 | 1879 - 826 pagina’s
...of the good, when lie speaks of the pious cottager and Voltaire, were strikingly illustrated — " She for her humble sphere, by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit : She knows, and knows no more, her /''••'i'. true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew... | |
 | William Lee - 1846 - 106 pagina’s
...store ; — Content though poor, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day; Just earns a scanty pittance, and, at night, Lies...pocket light. She for her humble sphere by nature fit, //<ts little understanding, and no wit ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pagina’s
...threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance; and at night Lies down secure,—her heart and pocket light. She, for her humble sphere...Has little understanding, and no wit; Receives no praise—but, though her lot be such, Toilsome and indigent, she renders much; Just knows, and knows... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pagina’s
...this maxim, " Know thyself." All men must suffer the common lot, " Dust to dust, ashes to ashes." She knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. — Cowper. He resolved never to waste a moment of time — a resolution which he never forgot. Some... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1846 - 268 pagina’s
...this maxim, " Know thyself." All men must suffer the common lot, " Dust to dust, ashes to ashes." Sho knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never kuew. — Cowper. He resolved never to waste a moment of time — a resolution which he never forgot.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pagina’s
...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...praise ; but though her lot be such (Toilsome and indigentl, she renders much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth the brilliant... | |
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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 live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and... 
