 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...bless'd the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...survey'd, And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round : And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...out :" Sir Walter How often have I blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...While many a pastime circled in the shade1, And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground', And sleights of art and feats of strength went round'. And still as each repeated pleasure tired', Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired' ; 25 The dancing pair that simply sought renown'... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; v surveyed ; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, Tne young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick' d o'er the ground; And slights of art, and feats of strength went round. Goldsmith. The Deserted Village. Now may each nymph, and frolick swain, O'er mountain steep, or level... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...method. The people who live in the village are seen, in this mode, as the lay figures of pastoral: And all the village train from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: Still, as in Thomson, under that hawthorn ! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these,... | |
 | John Norton-Smith - Social Science - 1983 - 164 pages
...whisp'ring lovers made! How often have I bless 'd the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - Art - 1988 - 310 pages
...strike, its palaces surprize') by evoking the genial egalitarian scenes an emparking landlord had erased And all the village train, from labour free. Led up...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd;47 - are episodes in the poems John Clare wrote against Parliamentary enclosure : Thou art... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...whispering lovers made. How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free Led up...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...whispering lovers made ! How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train from labour free, Led up...survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And flights of an, and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding... | |
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How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree... 
