 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 pages
...tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...the mirthful band inspired :— The dancing pair, that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There as... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain siistrustless of his smutted face, "While secret laughter tittered...sports like these, "With sweet succession, taught e'en toil_to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but... | |
 | China - 1856 - 780 pages
...sports the mirthful band inspired : The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted...matron's glance that would those looks reprove. These eight atrociously indecent lines are all omitted from the chaste Calcutta edition of " The Deserted... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's side-long looks...were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...to tire each other down, The swain mistrustless of his smutted face While secret laughter titter'd round the place, The bashful virgin's sidelong looks...! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed ; These were thy charms... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each other down, The swain mistrustless of his smutted...that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms . . . (lines 9-31) We notice first the continual syntactic expansion. Goldsmith begins with two items... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...sports the mirthful band inspired; The dancing pair that simply sought renown By holding out to tire each other down; The swain mistrustless of his smutted...The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. 30 These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place; The bashful virgin's side-long looks oflove, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove;...taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers thy chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. This passage... | |
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And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired, The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter tittered round... 
