 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...spreading tree ! While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; 20 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... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - 1853 - 426 pages
...scene presented is like that described by Goldsmith, — " Where all the "village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...sleights of art and feats of strength went round." It was a delightful spring, that of 17 — , and a softer sky never before smiled upon the village... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...blessed the coming day When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree;...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play ; And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...And sleights of art and feats of strength went round I And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired • The... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...tree ! While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; Anil'many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art, and feats of strength went round j And still, as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired. The dancing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 pages
...pastime eireled in the shade, The young eontending as the old survey'd ; And many a gambol froliek'd o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; And still as eaeh repeated pleasure tir'd, Sueeeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd ; The daneing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1854 - 614 pages
...train, from labour free, Led np 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. A boon companion in all his rural amusements was his r.ousin and college crony. Robert Bryanton, with... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed, And many a gambol f rolick'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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While many a 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... 
