 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 - Sida 177efter Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 399 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 sidor
...without one arm to save, 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 ev'n the bare-worn common is deny'd. The country blooms—a garden, and a grave. There the black gibbet... | |
 | 1814 - 310 sidor
...garden and a grave. C2 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 ev'n the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 sidor
...DESERTED FEMALE. 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 ev'n the hare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 sidor
...reside, To 'scape the pressure of 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, And e'en the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 sidor
...reside* To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride \ If to some common's fenceless limits «tray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the hare-worn common is denied, If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 sidor
...reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, lie drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 sidor
...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...even 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 sidor
...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 see profusion that he must not share ; To see teu thousand baneful arts combinM To pamper luxury,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 sidor
...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 see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1820 - 368 sidor
...favourite Goldsmith : " Where then, »h where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contagious pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd,...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth deride, And ev'n the bare worn common u deny'd." MRS. B. You should recollect that we do not admit... | |
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