 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...  The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 134by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1854 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 878 pages
...140 THE VICAR. That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. And be was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage,...complaint grew mild, And when his hand unbarred the shuiter, The clammy lips of Fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always had a tale... | |
 | 1888 - 1022 pages
...It will not be improved by burning. And lie was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnish'd cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share...his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hand nnbarr'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - English poetry - 1889 - 406 pages
...bad, It will 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...his approach complaint grew mild; And when his hand unbair'd the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always... | |
 | English poetry - 1889 - 118 pages
...will not be improved by burning. And 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...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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1890 - 976 pages
...all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage,...homely wit. And share the widow's homelier pottage. TWENTY-EIGHT AND TWENTY-NINE. 481 At his approach complaint grew mild, And when his hand unbarred the... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Coulson Kernahan - English poetry - 1891 - 452 pages
...belief is bad, 280 Lyra Elegantiarum. 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...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. lie always... | |
 | Austin Dobson, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - English poetry - 1892 - 92 pages
...bad, It will 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...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...mad, He held, in spite of all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, MY PLEA. And be was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage,...unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The weleome which they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus ;... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 696 pages
...all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage,...homely wit, And share the widow's homelier pottage I At his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hand unbarred the shutter. The clammy lips of... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1894 - 862 pages
...all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. And he was kind, and loved to sit In the low hut or garnished cottage,...unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus ;... | |
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