 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 páginas
...to write for their daily " leg of mutton,"— a joint concern, although a very slender one. " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her...sings, Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Resolves the sad vicissitudes of thinga." " And thus it happens that the poet, rich in his poverty,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 314 páginas
...to write for their daily " leg of mutton," — a joint concern, although a very slender one. " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her...sings, Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, -Resolves the sad vicissitudes of things." " And thus it happens that the poet, rich in his poverty,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...woe; The dawn of day is an approach to night, And grief is the conclusion of delight. Young. Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; All at her work the village maiden sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Kevolves the sad vicissitude of things. Gtfford. VICTORY. VILLANY.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 358 páginas
...to write for their daily " leg of mutton," — a joint concern, although a very slender one. " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her work the village maiden sings, And, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things." " And thus it... | |
 | Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, John Selby Watson - 1856 - 572 páginas
...from him, an account as it were of the expenses that he had bestowed upon his education, sa * Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her...she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. Repeated, from a forgotten volume of poems, by Johnson to " Croonin' to a body's... | |
 | 1856 - 598 páginas
...made."' — Booth. Hits/., i. xvil. JOHN I. DREDGE. ONE GIFFOBD, A CLERGYMAN. (2"J S. i. 492.) " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound, All at her work the village inniden sings: Nor while she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things."... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1857 - 206 páginas
...was so fond of quoting; and really it is so good that I will transcribe the whole of it : — ' Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her...wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.' Verse, it seems, can sweeten the toil of slaves in a tobaccofactory. " ' We encourage their singing... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1857 - 170 páginas
...one more to the glorious army of martyrs, July 27, 1553. MARY COLLING, THE HOUSEMAID POETESS. " Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; All at her...wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitude of things." A GOOD many years ago an amiable and accomplished lady, the wife of a Devonshire clergyman, observed... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 páginas
...more apt To slacken Virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound : All at her...sings, Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, Eevolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 'Tis sweet to hear a brook ; 'tis sweet To hear the Sabbath... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...warrant yon," said Dr. Johnson, " one of the songs of Ossian." He then repeated these lines : — Verse at he has acquired is considerable. Time will do for...philosophical turn. JOHNSON. " Human experience, which is co 1 I thought I had heard these lines before. JOHNSON. " I fancy not, Sir ; for they are in a detached... | |
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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. 
