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
| 1846 - 698 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighb'ring fields of half their growth : His seat, where solitary...pleasure all. In barren splendour feebly waits the fall.' The ' space' taken up by Lord Westmeath is capable of supporting many hundreds of those he irreverently... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary...thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 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...all the luxuries the world supplies : While thus the laud, adorned for pleasure all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorned... | |
| A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds : The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robbed the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary...to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds : The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robb'd the neighboring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary...thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 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...product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies : GOLDSMITH. While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all In barren splendour feebly waits the full.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 376 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...pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. 14 As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth ;. His seat where solitary spots are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes — But when those... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...where solitary spots are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green ; GOLDSMITHS POETICAL WORK8. Around the world each needful product flies, For all...please while youth confirms her reign,' Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes — But when those... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pages
...robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth s His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant...for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits its fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain. Secure to please while youth confirms her reign,... | |
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