 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...not be improved by burning. C7 And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome that they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Cœsar or of Venus ; From him I learned... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...learned the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put such trust in ; And make the... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 292 pages
...not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...Caesar or of Venus : From him I learned the rule of threei Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Qua? genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff... | |
 | American periodicals - 1874 - 898 pages
...not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. This is not poetry to move the world ; there is no vehemence of passion in it, but it is true drawing... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnish'd cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...his approach complaint grew mild, And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnish'd cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...his approach complaint grew mild, And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The weleome which they could not utter. He always... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and lov'd to sit In ihe low hut or gnrnish'd cottage. And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...homelier pottage : At his approach complaint grew mild?And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of Fever smiled The welcome, which they... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...will not be improved by burning. And he was kind and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome that they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Ceesar or of Venus ; From him I learned... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...will not be improved by burning. And he was kind and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the...shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome that they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Csesar or of Venus ; From him I learned... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...grew mild, And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome that they could not utter. He always had a tale for me...or of Venus ; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Quse genus; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal the staff he put... | |
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And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage: At his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled... 
