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" How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed... "
Don Esteban: Or, Memoirs of a Spaniard - Page 67
by Valentín Llanos Gutiérrez - 1825 - 292 pages
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd; The dancing...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: With an Account of His Life ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey 'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mjrthful band inspir'd; The dancing...
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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending, as the old survey 'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round. And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired : The dancing...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing...
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The muses' bower, embellished with the beauties of English poetry, Volume 3

English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd; VOL. in. H And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd. Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd; The dancing...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...pastime circled in the shade. The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round, And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The dancing...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 1

English literature - 1811 - 572 pages
...train from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round, was now to be seen nothing but stripped walls and smoking ruins ; not an article of furniture, not...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolic'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round; And still, as each repeated pleasure tir'd. Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The dancing...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went rouiwf. And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ;...
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...pastime circled in the shade—- The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round. And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired: The dancing...
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