 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 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 stray'd, lie drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...while he sinks, without one arm to save, Ihe country blooms— a garden and a grave, Where then, aht where shall poverty reside* To 'scape the pressure...contiguous pride \ If to some common's fenceless limits «tray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 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 stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 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 stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a. garden, and a grave. Where then, ah I where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 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 stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - 510 pages
...cottagers for the maintenance of a few lean cattle. Let me once more quote my favourite Goldsmith : " Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, " To...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 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 stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
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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... 
