 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?  Poetical Works - Stran 46avtor: Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 strani
...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...Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there? To see profusion... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1842 - 706 strani
...drove him also from the waste. " If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade ; Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide. And e'en the bare-worn common is denied." Now, Sir, it was from the first so obvious, notwithstanding all... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 strani
...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 garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 strani
...surprise ; While scourged hy 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. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 strani
...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...fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there? To see profusion that he... | |
 | 1845 - 614 strani
...surprise; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; 5 strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, fhose fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 strani
...wear heel-less sandal ; nor presume Their frngancy bare-footed to defile. , Smart. The Hop Garden. If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth «livide, And even the bare-worn common is i'eny'd. Goldsmith. The Deserted Village. BAREGE, a small... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 strani
...drawing forth his trenchant blade, High o'er his head he held \nsfenceful shield. Wc»t. Education. Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fencelet* limits stray'd. He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fencfltis fields the... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1846 - 472 strani
...wanderings, and noticed, that when " To some common's fenceless limits stray'd, They drove their flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And ev'n the bare worn common is denied." P Or "if to the city sped," he could not fail to meet with stragglers,... | |
 | 1846 - 698 strani
...civilised life, and even in danger of perishing by famine in the midst of plenty ! For ' While they sink, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave.' We would by no means detract from the exertions that are now made to relieve the aggravated destitution... | |
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