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" Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket... "
The listener - Page 23
by Caroline Wilson - 1856
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Beauties of Cowper: To which are Prefixed, a Life of the Author and ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance; and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light: She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew; And in that charter Twuls, 'with sparkling eyes, Her title...
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1851 - 592 pages
...that manifested before his students at St. Andrews, in sublime recitative, repeat the lines — " ' She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit ; She know«, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew —...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance ; and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light : She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true.... A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1806 - 316 pages
...heart a-nd pocket light ;, She, for her humble sphere by nature fit; ' Has little understanding, and-no wit, Receives no praise; but, though her lot be such-,...much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew; . And in that charter reads with sparkling tide to...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 360 pages
...livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible title— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1808 - 330 pages
...livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance ; and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light : She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...indigent) she renders much; Just knows, and knows no moie, her Bible true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads, with...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1810 - 390 pages
...livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew ; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1812 - 396 pages
...livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...much; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew; And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes Her title...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 390 pages
...live-long day, Just earns a scanty pittance ; and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little...; Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew; VOL. I. K A happy Ci'llager.—False Fame of a French PoH....
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1814 - 274 pages
...earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lice down secure, her heart and pocket light; ehe, for her humhle sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise; but, though her lotbe sucb, (Toilsome and indigent.) she renders much; Just knows, anil knows no more, her Bible true—...
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