| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pagina’s
...as follows : — ' Verse sweetens care however rude the sound ; All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.' Contemplation, which was published two years after Gray's Elegy, was suggested... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All at her work the village maiden sings; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Philip Metcalfe... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 496 pagina’s
...Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. " AH at her work the village maiden sings ; f' Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." I thought I had heard these lines before. — JOHNSON. " I fancy not, sir ; for they are in a detached... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pagina’s
...Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All at her work the village maiden sings ; " Xor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Philip Metcalfe... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 pagina’s
...' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.' What singing is to ' the spinners and the knitters in the sun,' or rather what it used to be, (for... | |
| James Boswell - 1813 - 484 pagina’s
...Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound, . " All at her work the village maiden sings ; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." I thought I had heard these lines before. — JOHNSON. " I fancy not, sir ; for they are in a detached... | |
| 1814 - 678 pagina’s
...Ch Bunting some rural dirty, sooths her care. Veise softens toil, however rude the sound, She I'ccls no biting pang the while she sings, Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel .iround, Revolvui the sid vicissitude of things. The «one of Sloth, in sleep's soft fetters bound,... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pagina’s
...Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " ЛИ at her work the village maiden sings; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 178-2, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he freqnently accompanied Mr. Philip Mctcalfe... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pagina’s
...Ver«« sweetens toil, however rude the sound : AIL at her work the village maiden sings; Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Philip Metcalft... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pagina’s
...Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : " All at her work the village maiden sings ; " Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, " Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." In the autumn of 1782, when he was at Brighthelmstone, he frequently accompanied Mr. Phillip Metcalfe... | |
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