 | Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 616 pages
...VILLAGE. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty chcer 'd the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,... | |
 | D C. Maccarthy - 1859 - 394 pages
...seems, " Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain ; Where smiling Spring its earliest visit paid, And parting Summer's lingering bloom delay'd." Like every true Irishman, he tenderly loved home, and yearned to return to it : —... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1860 - 422 pages
...sir, Your sincere friend, and ardent admirer, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. THE DESERTED VILLAGE SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty...lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1860 - 588 pages
...the wood where I had often strayed. I found in every tree and in every spring an old acquaintance. ' Dear, lovely bowers of innocence and ease. Seats of my youth, where every spot could please,' said I, as I traversed the ground. I stood on a hillock, and looked around me.... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...memory of Sweet Auburn — loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheer'd the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delay'd ; Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...popular poem, The Deserted Village, where there are not only enormously generalized descriptions— Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed, but also a mingling of abstract and concrete terms in the same phrase which reveal a superficial handling... | |
 | Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 516 pages
...can be: SWEET AUBURN, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheared the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,...lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Village \ Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring when every sport could please. How often have I loitered o'er the green, Where humble happiness endeared... | |
 | Elmo Howell - History - 1992 - 356 pages
...usually All Souls Day, by a priest from the Chapel of the Cross in Rolling Fork. * ** Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain... The village of Goldsmith's poem and Glen Allan are not very like, but standing before the ruins of... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...VILLAGE Sweet Aubum, loveliest village of the plain. Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,...lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please. How often have 1 loitered o'er thy green. Where humble happiness endeared... | |
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SWEET AUBURN ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the laboring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth,... 
