Pleas'd with thyself, whom all the world can please, How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire? Where shading elms along the margin grew, And... Poems, Plays and Essays - Стр. 77авторы: Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - Страниц: 530Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - Страниц: 582
...fire, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour.(1) Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their...grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burthen of threescore. So blest a life these thoughtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - Страниц: 558
...margin grew, And freshened from the wave the zephyr flew; And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune and marr'd the dancer's...power, And dance forgetful of the noon-tide hour." His mode of travelling is again expressly intimated in a work of fact: — "Countries wear very different... | |
| sir James Prior - 1837 - Страниц: 550
...flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune and marr'd the dancers' skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance forgetful of the noon-tide hour." His mode of travelling is again expressly intimated in a work of fact: — " Countries wear very different... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - Страниц: 550
...flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune and marr'd the dancers' skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance forgetful of the noon-tide hour." His mode of travelling is again expressly intimated in a work of fact : — " Countries wear very different... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - Страниц: 550
...flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune and marr'd the dancers' skill, Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance forgetful of the noon-tide hour." His mode of travelling is again expressly intimated in a work of fact : — " Countries wear very different... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - Страниц: 544
...flew : And haply, though my harsh touch, fail'ring still, But modt'd all tune, and marrM the dancers' ssumes an air of inspiration, grows big with the inspiring demon, and pretends to a skill in futu The learned and religious houses also appear to have been equally hospitable. "With the members of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - Страниц: 534
...fann'd by strong desire."— First edit.] (2) [" Unaltcr'd, unimproved their manners run."— Ibid.] Yet would the village praise my wondrous power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour.(1) Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And... | |
| James Wilson - 1838 - Страниц: 372
...prospect of future evils. " And happy, though my harsh touch, falt'ring still, But mock'd all time and marr'd the dancer's skill; Yet would the village...power, And dance, forgetful of the noon-tide hour." c2 I soon found, in consequence of this avocation, that I was exposed to numerous vices. I was obliged... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - Страниц: 242
...margin grew, And, freshen'd from the wave, the zephyr flew ; And haply, though my harsh touch falt'ring still But mock'd all tune, and marr'd the dancer's...beneath the burden of threescore. So blest a life these thonghtless realms display, Thus idly busy rolls their world away : Theirs are those arts that mind... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - Страниц: 358
...the zephyrs flew; And haply, though my harsh touch, faltering still, But mock'd all tune, and maiVd the dancer's skill. Yet would the village praise my...power, And dance forgetful of the noontide hour.' But, in truth, he understood not the character in which music is written, and played on that instrument,... | |
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