 Sat round the basket piled with oaten cakes, And their plain home-made cheese. Yet when the meal Was ended, Luke (for so the son was named) And his old father both betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fireside ;...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 252by William Wordsworth - 1827Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1800 - 240 pages
...themselves To such convenient work, as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card Wool for the House-wife's spindle, or repair Some...Or other implement of house or field. Down from the cieling by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...both'betook themselves To such convenient work, as might employ Their hands by the fire-side; perhaps to card Wool for the House-wife's spindle, or repair Some...Or other implement of house or field. Down from the cieling by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...Or other implement of house or field. Down from the cieling, by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card 207 Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...Or other implement of house or field. Down from the cieling, by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...Or other implement of house or field. Down from the cieling, by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge projection... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side; perhaps to card n the bars, To watch that fluttering stranger! and...dreamt Of my sweet birth-place, and the old church rieling, by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country-style Did with a huge projection... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fireside ; perhaps to card Wool for the housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...edge, That, in our ancient uncouth country style, With huge and black projection overbrowed Large space beneath, as duly as the light Of day grew dim,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...chimney's edge, That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge and black projeetion overbrowed Large space beneath, as duly as the light Of day grew dim... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...chimney's edge, That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge and black projection overbrowed Large space beneath, as duly as the light Of day grew dim... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...betook themselves To such convenient work as might employ Their hands by the fire-side ; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury done to sickle, flail, or scyuie, Or other implement of house or field. Down from the ceiling, by the chimney's edge, That in... | |
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