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
| English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; 800 And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, 305 He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed : In Nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, the river Thermodon in Cappadocia, who expelled their...men by force of arms, defended themselves by their strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1870 - 456 pages
...— 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...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayM, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors dows, hills, and groves, Forebode not any severing...delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty Made, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1872 - 458 pages
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betra/d: In nature's simplest charms at first arra/d, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas...reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride 1 If to some common's fenceless limits stra/d, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
| 1872 - 660 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 flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 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...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 divids,... | |
| 1872 - 900 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors nt 'зслре the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...: 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... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 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,...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, Jhe country blooms, — a garden and a grave. Where, then, ah ! where, shall Poverty reside, To 'scape... | |
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