| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 páginas
...bis humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, T'ie country blt,oiu>:- — a gartfen and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty...reside, ^To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? Elf to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, 5 13e drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, »... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...vistas strike, its palaees surprise; While, seourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful mournful lays, Shall shortly want the generous tear he pays ; Then from his elos eountry blooms — a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'seape the... | |
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band : And while he sinks,...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,... | |
| Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 páginas
...slightly imitative expression in uttering the line " pinched with cold and shrinking from the shower." 1 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, 2 Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| 1828 - 844 páginas
...wealth and pride His seat, where solitary sports are seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside To 'scape the pressure of contagious pride? If to some common's fenceless limits slray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty... | |
| 846 páginas
...their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside To 'scape the pressure of contagions pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray 'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1828 - 348 páginas
...cottagers for the maintenance of a few lean cattle. Let me once more quote my favorite Goldsmith : " Where then, ah where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contagious pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 páginas
...vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful smith f to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, :Ie drivée his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band : And while he sinks,...reside. To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride f If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 páginas
...Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's hear THE EXILES. 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,... | |
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