 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 strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the...  A Collection of Eighteenth Century Verse - Sida 329redigerad av - 1907 - 484 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sidor
...palaces surprise; , srnnrg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save* The 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 sidor
...poverty reside, To 'scape the pressnre of contignons pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty 'blade, Those...denied. If to the city sped, what waits him there f To see profnsion that he mnst not share; To see ten thonsand banefnl arts combin'd To pamper lnxnry,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sidor
...peasant leads his humble band ; And while he siuks, without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sidor
...leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a gardeu and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 sidor
...; While, tcourg'd l>y famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant l«-acls his bumble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, tlieu, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 sidor
...poverty 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 even the bare- worn common is deny 'd. If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see profusion that he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 sidor
...surprise ; While scourg'd by famirie from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...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,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 sidor
...surprise j The mournful peasant leads his humble baud ; -Inil, while he sinks without one arm to save, Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...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,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 sidor
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave. C2 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...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 - 1816 - 240 sidor
...surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...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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