 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 - Side 252af William Wordsworth - 1827Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 906 sider
...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...chimney's edge, That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge and black projection overb rowed Large space beneath, as duly as the light Of day grew dim... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1927 - 310 sider
...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...field. Down from the ceiling, by the chimney's edge, no That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge and black projection overbrowed Large space... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sider
...themselves To such convenient work as might employ 105 Their hands by the fire-side; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...field. Down from the ceiling, by the chimney's edge, no That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge and black projection overbrowed Large space... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 sider
...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...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 - 1958 - 196 sider
...themselves To such convenient work as might employ 105 Their hands by the fireside; perhaps to card Wool for the Housewife's spindle, or repair Some injury...field. Down from the ceiling, by the chimney's edge, no That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge and black projection overbrowed Large space... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 sider
...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...flail, or scythe, Or other implement of house or field. [95-111] Michael and Luke are shown working together at these indoor chores, but there should be no... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 sider
...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...flail, or scythe, Or other implement of house or field. no Down from the ceiling, by the chimney's edge, That in our ancient uncouth country style With huge... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2003 - 356 sider
...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 done to sickle, flail, or scythe, 110 Down from the ceiling by the chimney's edge, Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with... | |
 | David Rosen - 2008 - 224 sider
...be traced in Wordsworth's shorter poems of 1800. Down from the ceiling, by the chimney's edge. Which in our ancient uncouth country style Did with a huge...the light Of day grew dim the House-wife hung a lamp . . . The Light was famous in its neighbourhood, And was a public Symbol of the life That thrifty Pair... | |
 | Simon J. White - 2007 - 198 sider
...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 injury done to sickle, flail, or scythe' (106-10). The only occasion on which Wordsworth describes a communal leisure activity is his account... | |
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