 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray' d, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd; But...while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms....a garden and a grave. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside^ To 'scape the pressure... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray 'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...surprise, While, sormrg'db) famine from the smilingland The mournful peasant leads his humble land ; to mend ; Now pleas'd along the cloistcr'd walk you...and 10 court the Muse. Meantime at me (while all Mray'd, He drives his flock to nick the scanty blade, Those fenreJt- «s fields the sons of wealth... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; , srnnrg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...country blooms— a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! There shall poverty reside. To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The...while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, tcourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...without one arm to save, The country blooms — a gardeu and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While scourg'd by famirie from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads...poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous prid« ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade,... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...But, verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant...save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave. C2 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...luxury betray' d, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray' d, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
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Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits... 
