 And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind: To see each joy the sons of pleasure know...  Kottabos: College Miscellany - Page 81869Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...slightly imitative expression in uttering the line " pinched with cold and shrinking from the shower." 1 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, 2 Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1828 - 430 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 1828 - 844 pages
...wealth and pride His seat, where solitary sports are seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside To 'scape the pressure of contagious pride? If to some common's fenceless limits slray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty... | |
 | 846 pages
...their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside To 'scape the pressure of contagions pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray 'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1828 - 348 pages
...cottagers for the maintenance of a few lean cattle. Let me once more quote my favorite Goldsmith : " Where then, ah where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contagious pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 408 pages
...fear tie people's tongues. Ja¡ If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd. He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide. And even the bare-worn common is deny'd. Goldsmith.. TheDeterted Village. Nor stoop'd at barren bare necessity... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...Obscure it sinks, nor shall it more impart An hour's importance to the poor man's hear THE EXILES. WHERE, then, ah! where shall poverty reside^ To 'scape...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 ? To see profusion that... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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 f If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...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? f to some common's fenceless limits stray' J, le drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1831 - 436 pages
...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...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,... | |
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