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 livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket... Poems - Page 89by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
| 1848 - 792 pages
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. 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,... | |
| 1848 - 778 pages
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty ot" judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Content, though mean, and cheerful, if not pay, Shuffling her threads about, the live- long... | |
| 1848 - 786 pages
...soul, and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. 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,... | |
| John William Lester - 1848 - 112 pages
...contrast between the simple peasant and the witty Voltaire, what mild lustre glows in every line : — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content tho' mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...and an unmistakable certainty of judgment, such as the proudest philosopher never arrived at. ' Ton 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smother'd in 't at last, is praised to death. 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,... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1849 - 230 pages
...ignorant lace-weaver, with the great intellectual distinction of the poet and philosopher, Voltaire : " 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 livelong... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 1864 - 1126 pages
...charms of SKrtTES. literature. As they were in Cowper's day, so they are now ; and he said of them — Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door. Pillow and bobbins all her little store; Content, though m«an, and chevrful If not gay, Shuffling about her threads the live-long day,... | |
| William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...every side, He begs their flattery with his latest breath. And smothered in 't at last, is praised to death. 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 livelong day,... | |
| David Stow - 1850 - 536 pages
...Scripture, and one from Cowper: — ' Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifleth ; ' (buildeth up.) ' Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible's true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman* never knew... | |
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