 | William Hone - 1859 - 880 pages
...sloth, Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sport* arc seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green." And it is but too true that "the pressure of continuous pride" has driven farther and farther, from that day to this, the public from the rich man's... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - American literature - 1987 - 248 pages
...equipage, and hounds; The robe thai wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports...seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies: While thus the... | |
 | Teresa Calvano - Art - 1996 - 310 pages
...supplied; space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, space for his horses, equipage and hounds; ...His seat, where solitary sports are seen, indignant spurns the cottage from the green2. 1 La fama di Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74) è soprattutto legata al romanzo ¡I vicario di Wakefield;... | |
 | Charles Quest-Ritson - Gardening - 2003 - 302 pages
...equipage and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies: While thus the... | |
 | Karen Bloom Gevirtz - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 236 pages
...which complains that "The man of wealdi and pride / Takes up a space that many poor supplied" (275-76). His "seat, where solitary sports are seen, / Indignant spurns the cottage from the green" while the "sounds of population fail" (281-82, 125). In the hands of virtuous, novelistic widows land,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies: While thus the... | |
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Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds : The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring... 
