Or hear the summons with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wintry store. Reluctance marks their steps, sedate and slow ; The right of conquest all the law they know ; The strong press on, the... The Saturday Magazine ... - Page 1781842Full view - About this book
| Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 184 pages
...his lazy cows: Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summon with an idle gaze; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting...slow; The right of conquest all the law they know : Subordinate they one by one succeed; And one among them always takes the lead, Is ever foremost,... | |
| Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 158 pages
...heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summon with an idle gaze; For well they know the cow-yard yields no Its tempting fragrance, nor its wint'ry store. Reluctance...slow; The right of conquest all the law they know : Subordinate they one by one succeed; And one among them always takes the lead, Is ever foremost,... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - Farm life - 1801 - 390 pages
...his lazy Cows: Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summon with an idle gaze; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more . . ' Its...slow; The right of conquest all the law they know: Subordinate they one by one succeed; And one among them always takes the lead, Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er... | |
| 1801 - 452 pages
...an idle gaze, Forwell they know the cow-}ard yi< Ids no more Its tempting fragrance, nor its wmlry store. Reluctance marks their steps, sedate and slow, The right of conquest all the law they know; Subordinate they one by one succeed, And one among them always takes the lead, Is ever foremost, whercsoe'cr... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - Country life - 1806 - 212 pages
...lazy Cows : Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summon with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting...the lead ; Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray : Allow'd precedence, undisputed sway * : With jealous pride her station is maintain 'd, For many a... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1808 - 180 pages
...his lazy Cows: Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summon with an idle gaze; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting...the lead; Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray: Allow'd precedence, undisputed sway*: With jealous pride her station is maintain'd, For many a broil... | |
| William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...lazy cows ; Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze ; Or hear the summons with an idle gaze-; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting...the lead ; Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray, Allow'd precedence, undisputed sway ; With jealous pride her station is maintain'd, For many a broil... | |
| Mary Roberts - Gloucestershire (England) - 1831 - 388 pages
...lazy cows : Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summons with an idle gaze ; For well they know the cow-yard yields no more Its tempting...slow ; The right of conquest all the law they know : Subordinate, they one by one succeed, And one among them always takes the lead ; With jealous pride... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...lazy cows; Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summons with an idle gaze; For well they know the cowyard yields no more Its tempting...the law they know: The strong press on, the weak by tums succeed, And one superior always takes the lead; Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stray: Allow'd... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...lazy cows ; Down the rich pasture heedlessly they graze, Or hear the summons with an idle gaze ; For ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That...pale, pale now, those rosy lips I aft hae kiss'd hy turns succeed, And one superior always takes the lead ; Is ever foremost, wheresoe'er they stmy... | |
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