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" 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 8
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pages
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Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry

Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed; But, verging to decline, its splendors !n Ht ۥ 3 Ꞥk W ] Ǩw K %s +Koٯ +?t f If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those...
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Studies in English and American Literature, from Chaucer to the Present Time ...

Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pages
...surprise; 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...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,...
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Dramatic works of Sheridan and Goldsmith. With Goldsmith's poems, Volume 2

Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1884 - 320 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...The country blooms— a garden and a grave. Where, i hai, ah ! where shall Poverty reside, To scape the pressure of contiguous Pride? If to some common's...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poems. Plays. The bee. Cock-lane ghost

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 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...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,...
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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poems. Plays. The bee. Cock-lane ghost

Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 554 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...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,...
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Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 pages
...world supplies; While thus the land adorned for pleasure all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. e rest, were those who rose to rescue me, and whom...formerly rebaker! with such sharpness. I told the strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,...
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The Deserted Village ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 68 pages
...solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land by luxury betray'd : 42 While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The...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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The deserted village, illustr

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 80 pages
...array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; 42 While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The...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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The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poems. Plays. The bee. Cock-lane ghost

Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 520 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...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,...
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British Poems, from "Canterbury Tales" to "Recessional"

1912 - 572 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,...
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