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
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 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 - 1880 - 84 pages
...luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise : While,...reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride 8 If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
| Charles John Smith - 1880 - 112 pages
...luxury betray'd In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...to save, The country blooms, a garden and a grave." If the Irish landlords had limited their guilty career to indifference for the welfare of their tenantry,... | |
| John McGovern - 1880 - 762 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. At the end of the seventh line of the simile' the poet was compelled to use the word " bless " with... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 pages
...; While, seourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; soo And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country...pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd sos He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 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,... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...luxury betray 'd : In Nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But, verging to decline, its splendors er & Coates limite stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 500 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors 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 divide,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant lea<ls and this naked floorA table — a broken chair ; And a f If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 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 f If, to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, 662... | |
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