...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bovv'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...

...their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her ev'ning care; No children run to lisp their sire's return,...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ; How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...

...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur...

...of Gray has imbibed the very spirit of the Roman: For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Thomson has thus depicted circumstances of a congenial nature : Jri vain for him the officious...

...trumpet. Echoing horn — of the huntsman. vI. " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,' Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children...sire's return, Or climb his knees, the envied kiss to share. Housewife — properly means the wife, who v. who takts care of the lioflse : it sometimes...

...Progress of Poesy, v. QS. again in the Elegy : " For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busv housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to...sire's return; Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share." V. 21 . " At jam non domus accipiet te laeta ; neque uxor Optima ; nee dulces occurrent...

...them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening-care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke : How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!...

...flitts by on leathern wing, " Or where the beetle winds " His small but sullen horn." No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied...sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke ! How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke...

...No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,, Or busy housewife ply her evening care : No children run to lisp their sire's return , Jj DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. Book vij. Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the...

...swallow twitt'ring from the straw-huilt shed, For them no more ihe hlazing hearth shall hurn, Or husy housewife ply her evening care ; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climh his knee the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their...