 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 - Stran 8avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 strani
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...some common's fenceless limits stray'd He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blado, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 strani
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...country blooms — a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah 1 where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless... | |
 | John Hervey Ashworth - 1851 - 352 strani
...look upon. The words of Goldsmith had often recurred to my mind as I contemplated these scenes : — " Scourged by famine, from the smiling land The mournful...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " j CHAP. XIV. SLIEVEMORE. ME1LAN DR. MAC HALE AND THE REFORMED DIVINES OF ACHILL. ANXIOUS to have... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 strani
...when those charms are past, — for charms are frail, — When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all...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,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 strani
...; 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...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, 305 He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 190 strani
...whose vices — or recklessness hardly less criminal than vice — led to these appalling results.f " Scourged by famine, from the smiling land The mournful...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave." 0 many occasions have been suggestive of remarks concerning the attractions which the Irish Lakes —... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 strani
...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,... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 strani
...luxury betrayed : In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While,...reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride 1 If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 strani
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his Hook to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 strani
...luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed But, verging to decline, its splendors rise Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...grave ! Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To escape the pressure of contiguous pride 1 If, to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives... | |
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