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 ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith - Página 44de Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 156 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1826 - 300 páginas
...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped, what waits him there ? To see profusion that he must... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 páginas
...surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; 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
...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...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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1832 - 572 páginas
...upon his fields, he drove him also from the waste. " 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, And e'en the bare.worn common is denied." Now, Sir, it was from the first so obvious, notwithstanding all... | |
| Arthur Courtenay - 1834 - 238 páginas
...surprise ; While scourged by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads the humble band, And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. » GOLDSMITH. AFTER an absence of twenty years, myself •and my portmanteau were landed on what they... | |
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