 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pàgines
...surprise ; While, scourg'd l>y famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his bumble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave I Where, Uieu, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pàgines
...The monrnfnl peasant leads bis hnmble band ; And while he sinks, withont one arm to save, The conntry blooms— a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressnre of contignons pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pàgines
...surprise ; While, tcourg'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 gardeu and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1811 - 212 pàgines
...peasant leads his humble band; 300 And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms-^a garden and a grave. Where, then, ah! where shall poverty...pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, 305 He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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 pàgines
...surprise ; While, scourged 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. C2 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pàgines
...nose : the trailing cloud Streams far behind him, scenting all the air. COWBER. THE DESERTED FEMALE. WHERE, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1816 - 612 pàgines
...surprise; While, seourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his bamble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden arid a grave !" Who, that has contemplated the decline of empirei,— that has seen in the page of... | |
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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? 
