 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1890 - 227 σελίδες
...of land, they have, but they Are poorest of the poor. This scrap of land he from the heath Enclosed when he was stronger; But what avails the land to...store, As he to you will tell,~ For still, the more "he works, the more His poor old ancles swell. My gentle reader, I perceive How patiently you've waited,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1893
...of land they have, but they Are poorest of the poor. This scrap of land he from the heath Enclosed when he was stronger ; But what avails the land to them, Which they can till no longer ? " It will be seen that the sixth of these stanzas, which contains, as the Fenwick note informs us,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 204 σελίδες
...sleep or feed ; ' and sometimes his verse lacks the essential quality, and is not pleasure-giving. ' Few months of life has he in store, As he to you will tell, For still the more he works, the more Do his weak ankles swell. ' It neecs not to enquire how far the real language of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1896
...them avails the land Which he can till no longer ? And the following are the footnotes— 1845. Hut what avails the land to them, Which they can till no longer ? 1798. " lint what," saith he, " avails the land, Which I can till no longer ?" 1827. Rut what avails... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 412 σελίδες
...world 'sa bubble, and the life of man Less than a span,' etc. :— as Wordsworth's Simon Lee :— ' Few months of life has he in store, As he to you will tell, For still, the more he works, the more Do his weak ankles swell. My gentle Reader, I perceive How patiently you Ve waited,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 294 σελίδες
...skill From labour could not wean them, 'Tis little, very little— all That they can do between them. Few months of life has he in store, As he to you will tell, For still, the more he works, the more Do his weak ankles swell. My gentle reader, I perceive How patiently you've waited,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 522 σελίδες
...of land they have, but they Are poorest of the poor. This scrap of land he from the heath Enclosed when he was stronger : But what avails the land to them, Which they can till no longer? Evidently, Wordsworth felt that for the pathos of the poem it was not necessary to make Simon so grotesque... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 522 σελίδες
...of land they have, but they Are poorest of the poor. This scrap of land he from the heath Enclosed when he was stronger ; But what avails the land to them, Which they can till no longer ? Evidently, Wordsworth felt that for the pathos of the poem it was not necessary to make Simon so... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 263 σελίδες
...land they have, but they Are poorest of the poor. 6o This scrap of land he from the heath Enclosed when he was stronger; But what avails the land to...till no longer? Few months of life has he in store, 6¿ As he to you will tell, For stifi, the more he works, the more His poor old andes swell. My gentle... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 859 σελίδες
...awry, Rests upon ankles swollen and thick ; His legs are thin and dry ; " Few months of life he has in store, As he to you will tell, For still, the more he works, the more Do his weak ankles swell." — Simon Lee. " There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming,... | |
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Few months of life has he in store As he to you will tell, For still, the more he works, the more Do his weak ankles swell. 
