 | Charles Knight - 1880 - 1254 psl.
...slovenly cultivation had not called forth the resources of art to aid the churlishness of nature : " Io! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the ncigbouring poor, From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 psl.
...' Crabbe has described the unpromising scene of his nativity with his usual force and correctness: Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends the light tnrf that warms the neighbouring poor; • From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1884 - 744 psl.
...was the place where he was trained. In his poem, " The Village," he alludes to it as follows : "Lo I where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - 702 psl.
...— Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighboring poor; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its withered... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 psl.
...glimpse of the unpromising scene of his nativity, is a specimen of his rough energy of description : *Lo! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er Lends the light turf lhat warms the neighboring poor; Prom thence u length of burning sand appears Where the thin harvest... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1888 - 294 psl.
...shed? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour ? Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighb'ring poor ; From thence a length of burning sand appears, Where the thin harvest waves its wither'd... | |
 | John Macmillan Brown - 1894 - 436 psl.
...widely stray," as Virgil and his imitators did. He gives an often-quoted picture of the Suffolk coast, " Where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor," and " Poppies nodding mock the hope of toil." He describes the poverty-stricken village with its "... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 psl.
...? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where Fancy, leads the way ? . . . Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor ; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye ; There thistles... | |
 | 1899 - 948 psl.
...Village," the chief beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the heath, with withering brake grown o'er,...Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,... | |
 | 1899 - 640 psl.
...beauty of the lines consists in that human element which is constantly recurring : Lo ! where the beath, with withering brake grown o'er, Lends the light turf that warms the neighbouring poor. Or, again : Rank weeds, that every care and art defy, Reign o'er the land, and rob the blighted rye,... | |
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Where the thin harvest waves its withered ears; Rank weeds, that every art and care defy, Reign o'er the land and rob the blighted rye... 
