 Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits...  Poems and Essays - Stran 32avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 218 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 strani
...to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped, what waits...must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind : To see each joy the sons of pleasure know, Extorted from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 strani
...to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits...must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the sons of pleasure know, Extorted from... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 strani
...to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there 1 To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury,... | |
 | 1864 - 492 strani
...social evils, and oppressive toil, among the city-bred. The city is not made for a happy poor man. " What waits him there? To see profusion that he must...each joy the sons of pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creatures' woe." Amongst the products of civilization we must note the workhouse, the lunatic... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 strani
...d1vide And even the bare-worn common is denied — the continuing process of enclosure; to the city, but If to the city sped — what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share — a sense of the exaggerated contrasts of wealth and misery in the very aggregation that the city... | |
 | Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 strani
...home. In contrast with Johnson, Goldsmith was less impressed by the 'artificial plenty' of urban life: If to the city sped - what waits him there? To see...arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind. In Goldsmith's case it was not so much manufacturing, but the spread of luxury connected with the growth... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 strani
...is denied. 25. foaming, from the word 'mantle', the foam which covers the surface of liquor (OED). If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see...arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; 190 To see those joys the sons of pleasure know. Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe. Here, while... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 strani
...wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake; nor by the European city where the swain flees only To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind . . -20 A belief in the superiority of rural life was a... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 strani
...to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits...combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; To see those joys the sons of pleasure know Extorted from his fellow creature's woe. Here, while the courtier... | |
 | George Herbert Perris - 2005 - 640 strani
...wealth divide, And even the bare- worn common is deny'd. If to the city sped — what waits him there T To see profusion that he must not share, To see ten thousand baneful arts combin'd To pamper luxury, and thin mankind." It is conceivable that, had agriculture been resettled... | |
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