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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 livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket... "
Poems - Page 89
by William Cowper - 1788
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A Treatise on the Authorship of Ecclesiastes: To which is Added a ...

David Johnston - 1880 - 610 pages
...to Judges 8. 23 is scarcely conceivable. It is so shallow as to admit of being easily refuted by ' 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 —...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 pages
...theft — Thyself removed, thy power to sooth me left Voltaire and the Lace-worker. — From Truth? 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,...
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Gems from the English Poets: Chaucer to Tennyson ; with Biographical Notices ...

English poets - 1889 - 596 pages
...shock'd at what should charm them most, Despise the plain direction, and are lost. THE CONTRAST. ion 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,...
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Great thoughts on great truths, gathered by E. Davies

Great thoughts - 1882 - 742 pages
...ev'ry 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 thread about the live-long day,...
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The power of an endless life, and other sermons. With a memoir

James Moir - 1882 - 234 pages
...enter into the spirit of our poet in his contrasted picture of Voltaire and the humble cottager : — " 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,...
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The poetical works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1882 - 628 pages
...He begs their flattery with his latest breath, And smothered in't at last, is praised to death. Von 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,...
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Selections from Cowper's Poems

William Cowper (the Poet.) - 1883 - 294 pages
...on 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 live-long day,...
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The human sympathies of Christ

A Cunningham Geikie - 1883 - 214 pages
...yet so widely known, once, at least, describe with accuracy and pathos an undisturbed faith : — " 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,...
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Light from the old lamp, homespun homilies

James Jackson Wray - 1883 - 392 pages
...largely unnoted by the world's dim, purblind eye. Do you remember those fine lines of Co \vper 's ? — " Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down in peace, both heart and pocket light....
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History of the Present Deanery of Bicester, Oxon: Bicester

James Charles Blomfield - 1884 - 242 pages
...into this district from Bedfordshire. ' Cowper has described the scene common here as elsewhere. ' 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...
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