 tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate...  Poetical Works - Page 29by Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 72 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...village, but the independence of the poet, who had hoped to retire there, where (odd echo of Carew) No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate. It is not only the frustration of that understandable hope — my long vexations past, Here to return... | |
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