 | 1795 - 432 pages
...'scape the pressure of contagious pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, . He d rives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped—What watts him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pages
...strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without...of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share; To see... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd 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 garden and a grave. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside^ To 'scape the pressure... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped — What waits him there ? To see profusion... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...strike, its palaces surprize ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,. And ev'u the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide. And even the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped— What waits him there? To see profusion... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 498 pages
...surprise ; While scourged by famine from the smiling la The mournful peasant leads his humble tand ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. C 83 ] HENRY BAKER. 1774. From his poems, published in two volumes, 17-25, and 1 725. He was the confidential... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 324 pages
...strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without...of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped—what waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see... | |
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The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless... 
