 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
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 802 pages
...bad, It will not be improv'd by burning. And he was kind, and lov'd to sit In the low hut or garnish'd cottage, And praise the farmer's homely wit, And share...widow's homelier pottage. At his approach complaint grew mUd, And when his hand unbarr'd the shutter The clammy lips of fever smil'd The welcome which they... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1895 - 810 pages
...praise the farmer's homely wit, And when his hand unbarr'd the shatter. The clammy lips of fever smil'd And share the widow's homelier pottage. At his approach complaint grew mild, The welcome which they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Ciesar or of Venus ;... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1896 - 94 pages
...all his learning, That if a man's belief is bad, It will not be improved by burning. 'ND 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. 12 IE always had a tale for me Of Julius Caesar, or of Venus... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 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 Csesar, or of Venus;... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - Anthologies - 1897 - 642 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;... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...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 ;... | |
 | Mowbray Morris - English poetry - 1898 - 394 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,...At his approach complaint grew mild ; And when his hands unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - American poetry - 1899 - 768 pages
...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 that they could not utter. He always had a tale for me Of Julius Caesar or of Venus ; From... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 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. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses. . . . " 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. " Sit in the Vicar's seat ; you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle... | |
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