 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pàgines
...; 55 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...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pàgines
...surprise ^ While, scourg'd by famine .from the smiling land, The mournfyi 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 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...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 that he... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 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...pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sonstof wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pàgines
...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! where shall poverty...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped—What waits him there? To see profusion that he must... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pàgines
...lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress : . Where then, ah! where shall poverty reside, To scape...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In Nature's simplest charms at... | |
 | 1823 - 804 pàgines
...witnessed — " When scourged by famine from the smiling " The mournful peasant leads his humble " baud ; " And while he sinks, without one arm to " save, " The country blooms— a garden and a grave. The increase of population, as he had already observed, was not, therefore, an index of happiness.... | |
 | F. Campbell - 1824 - 440 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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 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 blooms — a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah I where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 blooms — a garden and a grave. ТЯЕ DESER.TED VIbbAGE. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous... | |
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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? 
