 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...pastime circled iu 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...circled in the shade, l^The young contending as the old survey 'd ; And many a gambol frolick'dj)'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round ; ,yAnd still as each repeated pleasure tired, rsBucceeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...blessed the coming day, When toil remitting lent its aid 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 ! 3. Sweet, smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; VOL. xcvi. NO. cxci. K And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.' School-holidays, like juvenile parties, are always a capital excuse for the animal spirits of the oldest... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 626 pages
...many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed ; VOL. XCVI. NO. CXCI. K And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.' At such times all debasing tricks, however time-honoured, should be eschewed. Grinning through a horse-collar,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor ight : the glory of all lands Flows into ɏ 0 '...` 4"O 1856 J. P. Jewett and company"- Jenk And »till as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - American fiction - 1879 - 418 pages
...presented is like that described by Goldsmith, — " Where all the village train, from labor fret, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While...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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree ; While many a pastime circle in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed...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... 
