...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...some common's fenceless limits stray'd He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blado, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn...

...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...country blooms — a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah 1 where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless...

...look upon. The words of Goldsmith had often recurred to my mind as I contemplated these scenes : — " Scourged by famine, from the smiling land The mournful...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " j CHAP. XIV. SLIEVEMORE. ME1LAN DR. MAC HALE AND THE REFORMED DIVINES OF ACHILL. ANXIOUS to have...

...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...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,...

...; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; 300 And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, 305 He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth...

...whose vices — or recklessness hardly less criminal than vice — led to these appalling results.f " Scourged by famine, from the smiling land The mournful...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave." 0 many occasions have been suggestive of remarks concerning the attractions which the Irish Lakes —...

...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,...

...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 1 If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those...

...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his Hook to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn...

...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed But, verging to decline, its splendors rise Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...grave ! Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To escape the pressure of contiguous pride 1 If, to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives...