 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...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. If to the city sped...him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; To see each joy the... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd ' To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...scanty blade, Those 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 must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined, To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...scanty blade, Those 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 must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind 5 To see each joy the... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,. And ev'u the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide. And even the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped— What waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combiu'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...common's fenceless limits Mray'd, He drives his flock to nick the scanty blade, Those fenreJt- «s ason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the...; I'or points obscure are of small use to learn ; sec prof-union that he must not share ; To see ten thousand Iwneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...scanty blade. Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped— What waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped, what waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...scanty blade, Those fenceless Gelds 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 must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the... | |
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The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To "scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's... 
