His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp... The Quarterly Review - Stran 313uredili: - 1899Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 strani
...and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling tram Usurp the land and dispossess the swain ; Along the...where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth, and cumb'rons pomp repose; And every want to luxury ally'd And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 strani
...companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered: trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess...hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 strani
...companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered : trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess...where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth, and cumberous pomp repose ; And every want 4o luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those... | |
| Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 strani
...the cottage from the green." On the subject of those mis-named improvements, by the way, in which " Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose, " Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose," the possessors themselves of those places have not been always destitute of compunctions similar to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 strani
...in one of his moral poems, comparing the world to his hour-glass, says — But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess...hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ;(1) And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 608 strani
...pessimistic note is struck in Goldsmith's ' Deserted Village ' : — ' Trade's unfeeling train Usurp the laud and dispossess the swain. Along the lawn, where scattered...site in Kent or Surrey ! 'The American war,' it was epigram matically said, a little later, ' rendered it difficult for a man to live as a gentleman on... | |
| 1845 - 614 strani
...companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Bat times are altered : Parker Willis And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 strani
...companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Hut times are altered ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess...where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumberous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 strani
...health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered ; trade's unfeeling trail: Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the...where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumberous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 strani
...his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered : trade's unfeeling train Usurp i !». land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose, ts Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pnng that... | |
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