The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove — These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these With sweet succession taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence... Poetical Works - Page 27by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...reprove ; These were' thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful...shed, These were thy charms, but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matrou'sglancethatwould those looks reprove. These were thy charms, sweet...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, " [fledThese were thy charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...reprove. These were thy charnu, sweet village! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charm« — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports... | |
 | Brothers of the Christian schools of Ireland - 1841 - 316 pages
...other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place. These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bow'rs their cheerful influence shed; These were thy charms—but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...sports like these , With sweet succession , taught e'en toil to please : These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed , These were thy charms... | |
 | 1843
...of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's aide-long looks of love, The matron's glance that would those...village, sports like these "With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed. These were thy charms—... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1842 - 54 pages
...flood. " These were thy charms, sweet village, joys like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers, their cheerful...shed, These were thy charms, but all these charms are fled." GOLDSMITH. There seemed, also, perfect union of purpose and action in almost every person... | |
 | 1842 - 1552 pages
...largely upon the pages of Maga. We will, therefore content ourselves with noticing a few. Plate V: ¥ " The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove," &c. This is a very pleasing homely scene, etched by HJ Townsend. The lines are well charactered —... | |
 | 1842 - 608 pages
...mistrustless of his smutted face, \Vhile secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgins' sidelong looks of love ; The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. In all the joyousness, the tenderness, and almost the vitality of nature, they are here. Look at Tayler's... | |
 | 1843 - 184 pages
...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur... | |
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