Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day ;— There children dwell who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken... The School of Wisdom - Page 2101803 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Crabbe - English poetry - 1823 - 302 pages
...that holds the parish-poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful...day;— There children dwell who know no parents' care; 1'arents, who know no children's love, dwell there! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...broken door ! There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful thro' the day ; There children dwell who know no parents'...love, dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Applied ethics - 1826 - 422 pages
...the common workhouse that wealth displays its justice? " Where children dwell who know no parent's care; Parents who know no children's love dwell there; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed; Dejected widows with unheeded tears And crippled... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - Applied ethics - 1826 - 426 pages
...the common workhouse that wealth displays its justice? " Where children dwell who know no parent's care ; Parents who know no children's love dwell there ; Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears And crippled... | |
| English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours flagging play, And the dull wheel hums doleful...love, dwell there : Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows, with unheeded tears, And crippled... | |
| George Crabbe - English poetry - 1899 - 540 pages
...that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful...love, dwell there ! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled... | |
| George Crabbe - 1832 - 92 pages
...that holds the Parish- Poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful...children's love dwell there ! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and^mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled... | |
| George Crabbe - 1832 - 152 pages
...that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful through the day; The children dwell who know no parents' care — Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there!... | |
| George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...that holds the parish poor, Whose walls of mud scarce bear the broken door ; There, where the putrid vapours, flagging, play, And the dull wheel hums doleful...love, dwell there ! Heart-broken matrons on their joyless bed, Forsaken wives, and mothers never wed ; Dejected widows with unheeded tears, And crippled... | |
| John Barrow - 1835 - 376 pages
...the inhabitants of Reikiavik, whose good conduct rendered such a place unnecessary— a place " Where children dwell, who know no parents' care; Parents, who know no children's love, dwell there." Like all sea-port towns, however, Reikiavik is not free from the vice of drunkenness, which is by no... | |
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