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" Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 136
1808
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 566 pages
...The Village was copied, in every touch, from the scene of the poet's nativity and boyish days : — ' Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms tbe neighboring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its...
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The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ...

English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...that matron pnle, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand." pp. 8—10. We shall only give one other extract from this poem...shores of the Channel :— " Lo ! where the heath, with with'ring brake grown o'er, [poor ; Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring From thence a...
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The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ...

English essays - 1852 - 782 pages
...that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand." pp. 8—10. We shall only give one other extract from this poem...of the Channel : — " Lo ! where the heath, with with'ring brake grown o'er, [poor ; Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring From thence a...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 6

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 780 pages
...that matron pnle, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth in' expiring brand." pp. 8— 10. We shall only give one other extract from this poem...shores of the Channel : — " Lo ! where the heath, wilh with' ring brake grown o'er, [poor ; Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring From thence...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1864 - 784 pages
...that matron pale, whose trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth th' expiring brand." pp. 8—10. We shall only give one other extract from this poem...following fine description of that peculiar sort of barrcnnes* which prevails along the sandy and thinly , inhabited shores of the Channel : — " Lo !...
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George Crabbe: a Biography

Edward Clodd - 1865 - 92 pages
...the Suffolk sea-coast, will see, in reading " The Village," where Crabbe copied this picture from: " Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that wanns the neighbouring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1873 - 798 pages
...that matron pale, whoso trembling hand Turns on the wretched hearth lh' expiring brand." pp. 8 — 10. We shall only give one other extract from this poem; and we select the following fins description of that peculiar sort of barrennesi which prevails along the sandy and thinly inhabited...
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Poems of Places: England and Wales

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1877 - 290 pages
...Renewing oft his poor attempts to beat His tingling fingers into gathering heat. George Cratle. THE HEATH. LO ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered...
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Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland ..., Volume 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 294 pages
...oft his poor attempts to beat TTis tingling fingers into gathering heat. THE HEATH. George Crable. LO! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered...
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The Popular History of England, Volumes 5-6

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1246 pages
...slovenly cultivation had not called forth the resources of art to aid the churlishness of nature : "Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neigbouring poor, From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withcrM...
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