 | Theophilus Cibber, Robert Shiells - 1753 - 418 ページ
...fpinning-wheel, and [loom. He purfues the defcription in the fubfsquent Stanza. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they loll, turn o'er fome idle rhimc ; Then rifing fudden, to the glnfs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1763 - 458 ページ
...bloom.; Bus. far is caft.the diftaff, fjrinning-wheel and loom. LXXI1. .,-.•• Their only labour was to kill the .time: And labour dire it is, and weary woe. . . i They fIt, they loll,.turn o'er fomeidle rhyme ; Then, rifmg fudden, to the glafs.they go, Or... | |
 | James Thomson - 1760 - 326 ページ
...the vernal bloom ; But far is caft the diftaff, fpinning-wheel, and loom. LXXIL Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they loll, turn o'er fome idle rhyme ; Then, rifing fudden, to the glafs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 628 ページ
...vernal bloom ; But far is caft the diftaff, fpinning- wheel, and loom. LXXII. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they loll, turn o'er fome idle rhyme; Then, rifing fudden, to the glafs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
 | 1782 - 518 ページ
...range the vernal bloom. But far is call the diftafi", (pinning- wheel, and loom. Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe : They fit, they loll, turn o'er fome idle rhyme. Then, rifing fudden, to the glafs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
 | John Bell - 1787 - 510 ページ
...the vernal blodm, But far iscaftthediftaff, fpinning-wheel, and loom. LXXII, Their only labour was to kill the time, And labour dire it is, and weary woe : They fit, they loll, torn o'er fome idle rhyme, Then, riling fudden, to the glafs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
 | James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch - 1788 - 326 ページ
...vernal bloom ; But far is caft the diftaff, fpinning-wheel, and loom. LXXII. Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they loll, turn o'er fome idle rhyme; Then, rifing fudden, to the glafs they go,Or faunter forth,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 292 ページ
...bloom ; But far is caft the diftaff, fpinrung-whed, and loom. LXXII. Their LXXII. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they loll, turn o'er fome idle rhyme ; Then, rifing fudden, to the glafs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 ページ
...range the vcmal bloom : Jut far is call thediftaff', fpinning-whccl.and loom. Their only labour was to kill the time : And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they-loll, turn o'er Come idle rhyme : Then rifini; fudden, to the glafs they go, Or iaimter forth,... | |
 | John Moore - 1796 - 534 ページ
...ftrongeft at home, yet h became alfo a nuifance to all the neighbourhood. CHAP. XXIX. Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They fit, they loll, turn o'er feme idle rhyme; Then rifing fudden to the glafs they go, Or faunter forth,... | |
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Their only labour was to kill the time ; And labour dire it is, and weary woe. They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme •; Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering step and slow : This soon too rude an exercise... 
