 With gipsy-state engross'd the only chair ; Solemn and dull her look : with such she stands And reads the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life ; assum'd through years, Each feature now the steady falsehood wears; With hard and savage...  Tales - Pagina 181door George Crabbe - 1812 - 398 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1812 - 668 pagina’s
...Gipsy-state engro»s'd the only chair ; Solemn and dull her look ; with such she stands, Ar<d K-. di the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the...brood : Last in the group, the worn-out Grandsire sit* NegleUed, lost, and living but by fits; Uscle s, despi&'d, his worthless labours done, And half... | |
 | 1813 - 422 pagina’s
...his tardy aid — her mother there, With Gipsy-state cngross'd the only chair ; Solemn and dull her look ; with such she stands, And reads the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the Vines of life ; assum'd through years, Each feature now the. steady falsehood wears ; With hard and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 260 pagina’s
...his tardy aid — her Mother there With Gipsy-state engross'd the only chair ; Solemn and dull her look ; with such she stands, And reads the Milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life; assumed through years, Each feature now the steady falsehood wears ; With hard and savage eye she views... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pagina’s
...cliair ; Solemn and dull her look; with such the stands. And reads the Milk-maid's fortune in her hand*. Tracing the lines of life ; assum'd through years. Each feature now the steady falsehood wears ; 7f ith hard and savage eye she views the food, And gridging pinches their intruding br<x'd: Last... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1823 - 486 pagina’s
...Cursing his tardy aid—her mother there With gipsy-state engross'd the only chair; Solemn and dull her look; with such she stands, And reads the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life; assumed through years, Each feature now the steady falsehood wears; With hard and savage eye she views... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pagina’s
...hi* tardy aid — hir mother thera With gipsy-state engross'd the only chair ; Solemn and dull her look ; with such she stands, And reads the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life ; assumed through years, Each feature now the steady falsehood wears ; With hard and savage eye she... | |
 | 1828 - 442 pagina’s
...maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of1 life ; assumed through years, Kxcli fefttrfre riow the steady falsehood wears ; With hard and savage...And grudging pinches their intruding brood ; Last in ti:e group, the worn-out grandsire sits Neglected, lost, and living but by fits ; Useless, despised,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1899 - 540 pagina’s
...his tardy aid — her Mother there With gipsy-state engross'd the only chair ; Solemn and dull her look ; with such she stands, And reads the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life ; assumed through years, Each feature now the steady falsehood wears ; With hard and savage eye she... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1832 - 152 pagina’s
...Cursing his tardy aid — her mother there With gipsy-state engross'd the only chair. Solemn and dull her look — with such she stands, And reads the milk-maid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life — assumed thro' years Each feature now the steady falsehood wears. With hard and savage eye she views... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 432 pagina’s
...such she stands, And reads the milkmaid's fortune in her hands, Tracing the lines of life ; assumed through years, Each feature now the steady falsehood...pinches their intruding brood. Last in the group, the worn out grandsire sits Neglected, lost, and living but by fit* ; Useless, despised, his worthless... | |
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