 Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry, all he knew. But past is all his fame. The very spot Where many a time he triumphed, is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its...  Pen and pencil pictures from the poets - Page 59by Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 150 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1770 - 44 pages
...nut-brown draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place; The white-wafhed wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pages
...nut-brown draughts inspired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retiree, Where village ilatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place ; The white- warned wall, the nicely-fancied... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...nut-brown draughts infpired, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retired, Where village ftatefmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendours of that feftive place ; The white-wafhed wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1785 - 316 pages
...draught* infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen 'talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace, The parlour fplendors of that feftive place f The white-wafh'd wall, the siceiy-fanded... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pages
...draught? infpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and fmiling toil retir'd ; Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace, The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-wafh'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1785 - 320 pages
...nut-brown draughts infpirM, "here grey-beard mirth and fmiling toil retir'd, "We village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Pagination fondly floops to trace, flit parlour fplendors of that feflive place ; flic white-wafh'd... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...draughts iriTpir'd;: \Vliere gra*beard mirth, and ftnilbg toil, retir'd ; Where village- flat efmen talk'd .-with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops, to trace The parloiuvfplendours of that feftive-place : — The white-wafli'd wall ; the niceIy-fanded... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...dranghtsinfpir'd, Where grey-beard mirth, and fmiling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly (loops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-waflt'd wall* the nicely fanded... | |
 | 1792 - 112 pages
...draughts infpir'dj Where grey-beard mirth, and Irniling toil retir'd, Where village ftatefmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly ftoops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feftive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
 | James Roach - 1792 - 284 pages
...draughts infpir'd, Wheie grey-beard mirth, and finiling toil reuVd, "Where village flatefraen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly floops to trace The parlour fplendors of that feflive place ; The white-wafli'd wall, the nicely fanded... | |
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