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
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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