 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pàgines
...its palaces surprise ; While scourged by famine from the smiling land, Where then, ah ! where «ball poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous...some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his dock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide. And even the bare-worn... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion that he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pàgines
...surprise; Wliile, scourged by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble bandj And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pridel If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drivée his flock to pick the scanty blade,... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pàgines
...dispossessed people of the village to the possible alternatives: to another part of the country, but If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd He drives...scanty blade Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth d1vide And even the bare-worn common is denied — the continuing process of enclosure; to the city,... | |
 | Thomas Gallagher - 1987 - 372 pàgines
...village fall? 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 . . . Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay . . . —Oliver... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 pàgines
...surprise; While scourged by famine from the smiling land, 300 The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks without one arm to save, The country...reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? 305 If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pàgines
..."tangling walks, and ruined grounds," line 78) are depriving the populace of their national heritage: 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, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pàgines
...the ruined country-girl: a home reproof to obdurate men; and a strong warning to unguarded innocence. '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, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Teresa Calvano - 1996 - 310 pàgines
...repose.., 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 grave3. È evidente che Goldsmith per primo, dopo quasi cinquant'anni dall'inizio della creazione del... | |
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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? 
