 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 Seiten
...play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree1 While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending...Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired: The dancing pair, that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down; The swain, mistrustless... | |
 | 1846 - 532 Seiten
...And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending...sleights of art, and feats of strength went round, These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these With sweet succession taught e'en toil to please.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 Seiten
...And all the village train; from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending...sleights of art and feats of strength went round. These were thy charms, sweet village, sports like these With sweet succession taught e'en toil to please... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 Seiten
...The young contending as the old snrvey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleighu of art and feats of strength went round; And still...repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful Iw,d inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down;... | |
 | John Norton-Smith - 1983 - 164 Seiten
...And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength... | |
 | Denis Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels - 1988 - 310 Seiten
...And all the village train, from labour free. Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd;47 - are episodes in the poems John Clare wrote against Parliamentary enclosure : Thou art... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 Seiten
...play, And all the village train from labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending...surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And slights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; 20 And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round,... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...play, And all the village train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree; While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And flights of an, and feats of strength went... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 Seiten
...And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending...sleights of art and feats of strength went round. To a certain extent, Goldsmith can be accused of idealising a lost idyll of country life. Certainly... | |
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How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed;... 
