 But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; 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...  Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works - Page 8by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 pages
...past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitons child was born ; and tidings came again, That she...Throne Of Mercy, and perfumed our prayers with sighs Ho drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. The Deserted Vittaye. ' Genti Del bel paase la, dor'l si suona.' % FAR to the right, where Apennine... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling rand, children all divide her care ; The fur that warms...all things for my use ! ' " See man for mine 1 " strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ; But, verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; "While,...save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. 3. "Where, then, ah I where shall Poverty reside, To escape the pressure of contiguous Pride ? If to... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ; But, verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...contiguous pride ? 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,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...luxury betrayed : In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise ; Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise : While,...contiguous pride ? 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 110 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed; But, verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride P If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressnre of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1877 - 526 pages
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed ; In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas...contiguous pride ? 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...contiguous pride ! 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,... | |
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