 Motion was in their days, rest in their slumbers, And cheerfulness the handmaid of their toil; Nor yet too many nor too few their numbers; Corruption could not make their hearts her soil; The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the...  History of Lee County - Page 2831881 - 873 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Filson - 1823 - 52 pages
...distortions; Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. Motion was in their days, rest in their slumbers,...stings, the splendor which encumbers, With the free forester divide no spoil; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes Of this unsighing people of the woods.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1823 - 204 pages
...Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. LXVII. Motion was in their days, Rest in their slumbers,...their hearts her soil ; The Lust which stings, the Splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil ; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1823 - 424 pages
...in the wilderness, of whom the poet observes — Motion was in their days, Rest in their slumber*. And Cheerfulness the handmaid of their toil ; Nor yet too many nor too few their number* ; Corruption could not make their hearts her soil ; The Lust which stings, the Splendour which... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 346 pages
...Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. LXVII. Motion was in their days, Rest in their slumbers,...their hearts her soil; The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. LXVII. Motion was in their days, rest in their slumbers,...their hearts her soil; The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1826 - 804 pages
...herdistnrtions; Simple they were, not savage; and their rifles. Though very (riu:, were not yet used for trifles. er"9 Byron George Gordon Byron" George Gordon Byron Byron( splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil ; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1826 - 554 pages
...they were, not savage; and their rifles, Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. Lxvir. otion was in their days, rest in their slumbers, And cheerfulness the handmaid of their toil ; The maddcn'd Turks their city still dispute. LXX. Koutousow, he who afterwards beat back (With some... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 542 pages
...they were, not savage ; and their rifles,' Though very true, were not yet used for trifles. I-XVII. Motion was in their days, rest in their slumbers,...their hearts her soil : The lust which stings, the splendour which encumbers, With the free foresters divide no spoil ; Serene, not sullen, were the solitudes... | |
 | George Gordon Noël Byron - 1832 - 456 pages
...not yet nsed for tiille-s. LXVll. Motion was in their days, rest in their slnmbers. And cheerfnllness the handmaid of their toil; Nor yet too many nor too few their nnmbers; Corrnption conld not make their hearts her soil: The lnst which stings,the splendonr which... | |
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