 And 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 of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick...  Essays, Poems and Plays: With a Preface - Page 177by Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1836 - 150 pages
...garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd,...denied. If to the city sped, what waits him there ? To sec profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...and a grave. } * Where then, ah ! where shall.poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? •" If to some common's fenceless limits....Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, 'hose fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, nd e'en she actually put her hand in her pocket, and gave the messenger sevenp therel 'o see profusion that he must not share ; 'o see ten thousand baneful arts combined 'o pamper... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...reside, To "scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn cotnmon is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd,...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? l6To see profusion that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd,...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there? l6To see profusion that he... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1839 - 452 pages
...Goldsmith : — ' Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, 1 To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? ' If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd,...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, ' And e'en the bare-worn common is denied." MRS. B. You should recollect that we do not admit poets to be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...garden, and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd,...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare- worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, 'hose fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, .nd e'en n to honest quadrupeds, No single brute his fellow leads. Brutes never there1? 'o see profusion that he must not share; 'o see ten thousand baneful arts combined 'o pamper... | |
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