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" Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portioned maids, apprenticed... "
The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Page 132
by Reuben Percy - 1826
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread; He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, WTiere Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portioned...blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick? the Man of Eoss relieves, Prescribes, attends, the med'cine makes, and gives. Is there...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows '. Whose seats the weary traveller repoSe? 4 Who feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate? Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise? The Man of Ross, each lisping babe replies. Behold the...
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Topography of Great Britain: Or, British Traveller's Directory: Cornwall

George Alexander Cooke - 1817 - 306 pages
...replies i Behold the market-place with poor o'erspsead ! Tlie Man of Ross divides the weekly bread ; He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the ^ate ; Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest ; The young who labour, and the old who rest....
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The Universal magazine, Volume 11

1809 - 596 pages
...that, in the following couplet, there is a confuiion of time in the tenses employed : Him portion1*! maids, apprenticed orphans blest, The young, who labour, and the old, who M.'St. "The tenses are here unluckily changed," says the crtic, " contrary to grammatical propriety....
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ..., Volume 6

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1805 - 686 pages
...Market-place with poor o'erspread! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon aims-house, neat, but void of state. Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest ; The young who labor, and the old who rest. Is any sick?...
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Rays of Genius Collected to Enlighten the Rising Generation, Volume 1

Thomas Tomkins - 1806 - 348 pages
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...within himself. Now virtue and wealth, thus circumstanced, are, indeed, no other than mere names." He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of. state, Where AGE and WANT sit smiling at the gate : Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest. The young who labour, and the old who rest.* These lines,...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

1806 - 408 pages
...replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The MAN OF Ross divides the vveekjy bread ; He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. ]s any sick...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

1806 - 330 pages
...swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose? 82 Who feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state* Where age and want sit smiling at the gate? Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise? The Man of Ross, each lisping babe replies. Behold the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Mau of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almhouse, neat, but void of state' Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick...
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