 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...vistas strike, its palaces surprise ^ While, scourg'd by famine .from the smiling land, The mournfyi peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks,...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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...eyes; But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all...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 of... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 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...pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sonstof wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In Nature's...while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms—a garden and a grave. If to the city sped—What waits him there? To see profusion that he... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...But, verging to decline, its splendours rise,Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land The mournful peasant...grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside. To '«.-ape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray 'd, He drives... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd Pu :/ I where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, f to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, :Ie drivée his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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...reside. To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride f If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 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...a garden, and a grave. } * Where then, ah ! where shall.poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? •" If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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...pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, lie drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And... | |
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