 That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds : The robe that wraps his...  Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Page 8by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Forster Blanchard - 1867 - 200 pages
...all the world around ; Yet count our gains : this wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth...supplies : While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure, aH In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail,... | |
 | 1912 - 572 pages
...Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His...the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land adorned for pleasure all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorned and... | |
 | 1912 - 440 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary...luxuries the world supplies: While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorned... | |
 | 1915 - 368 pages
...Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same. A'ot so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up...pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. — GOLDSMITH A SPADE! a rake! t\ hoe! A pickaxe, or a bill ! A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow, A... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring ñelds of half their growth; 280 1'+ 4r ge-LA confirma her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, 289 Nor shares with art the triumph... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 978 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary...luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, In barren splendor, feebly waits the fall. . . . Where then, ah! where, shall... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 854 pages
...sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; 280 His seat, where solitary spots are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green;...supplies. While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure, all 285 In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to... | |
 | Walton Hale Hamilton - 1916 - 914 pages
...silken sloth Hath robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary snorts are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green:...pleasure, all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. b) When There Was a Frontier* . BY JB MC MASTER The year 1786 in all the states was one .of unusual... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth ; 280 His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant...the luxuries the world supplies; While thus the land adorned for pleasure all 285 In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorned... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 pages
...that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; 280 His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant...luxuries the world supplies ; While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all 285 In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorned... | |
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