The Penguin Book of English Pastoral VerseJohn Barrell, John Bull Allen Lane, 1974 - 539 pages |
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Page 295
... labour the absence of which had seemed to all earlier writers the chief attraction of the Golden Age . The owners of the lands that Thomson describes are proud to live by the sweat of some- one's brow , if not their own . - We might ...
... labour the absence of which had seemed to all earlier writers the chief attraction of the Golden Age . The owners of the lands that Thomson describes are proud to live by the sweat of some- one's brow , if not their own . - We might ...
Page 378
... labour of the harvest comes the labour of sowing , of weed- ing . The only , temporary consolation is in alcoholic stupor . To stress these aspects of The Thresher's Labour is , however , to read the poem too much through twentieth ...
... labour of the harvest comes the labour of sowing , of weed- ing . The only , temporary consolation is in alcoholic stupor . To stress these aspects of The Thresher's Labour is , however , to read the poem too much through twentieth ...
Page 403
... labour spent in vain ; But yet in other scenes more fair in view , When Plenty smiles - alas ! she smiles for few - And those who taste not , yet behold her store , Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore - The wealth around them ...
... labour spent in vain ; But yet in other scenes more fair in view , When Plenty smiles - alas ! she smiles for few - And those who taste not , yet behold her store , Are as the slaves that dig the golden ore - The wealth around them ...
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Egloga Tertia | 23 |
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 155486 | 37 |
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