 | 1800 - 322 pages
...verging to decline, its splendors rise, . . Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...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 - 1803 - 192 pages
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...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 - 1806 - 248 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant...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.... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...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,.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 pages
...In natures simplest charms at first anay'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vista's strike, its palaces surprise ; While scourged by famine...leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one'arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. HENRY BAKER. 1774. From bis poems, published... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...surprise, While, sormrg'db) famine from the smilingland The mournful peasant leads his humble land ; to mend ; Now pleas'd along the cloistcr'd walk you...and 10 court the Muse. Meantime at me (while all Mray'd, He drives his flock to nick the scanty blade, Those fenreJt- «s fields the sons of wealth... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; , srnnrg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...country blooms— a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! There shall poverty reside. To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant...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... | |
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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. 
