...bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove, — . These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; There,...

...place; The basliful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms—but...

...bashful virgin's side-long looks of love ; The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove : so These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms —...

...place; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession taught even toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed; These were thy charms —...

...; The bashful virginV side-long looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove : These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like these, With sweet succession, i night e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy...

...; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove ; These were thy charms, sweet village ! sports like...were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn ! Thy sports are Bed, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amid...

...labour free Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree: Still, as in Thomson, under that hawthorn ! These were thy charms, sweet village! sports like...With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please. But the sweet succession is in fact a series of literary reminiscences: a dissolving of the lives and...

...repetitions, catalogues, and imaginary portraits. Typical of the poem's diction are lines like the following: These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms —...

...place; The bashful virgin's side-long looks oflove, The matron's glance, that would those looks reprove; These were thy charms sweet village; sports like these...taught e'en toil to please; These round thy bowers thy chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. This passage...

...The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. The matron's glance that would those looks reprove. 30 These were thy charms, sweet village; sports like these, With sweet succession, taught even toil to please; These round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms —...