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" 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 - Page 8
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 127 pages
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...But, verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...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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Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell

Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd ; In nature's simplest charms at first array 'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas...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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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...surprise, While, sormrg'db) famine from the smilingland The mournful peasant leads his humble land ; to mend ; Now pleas'd along the cloistcr'd walk you...and 10 court the Muse. Meantime at me (while all Mray'd, He drives his flock to nick the scanty blade, Those fenreJt- «s fields the sons of wealth...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; , srnnrg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant...country blooms— a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! There shall poverty reside. To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith ...: To which is Prefixed an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While scourg'd by famirie from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads...poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous prid« ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade,...
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Beauties of Poetry: Consisting of Elegant Selections from the Works of Pope ...

English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But, verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,...save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave. C2 Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to...
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The Poetical Works, Complete, of Oliver Goldsmith ... with Some Account of ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...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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The Traveller, The Deserted Village, and Other Poems ...

Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...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, And...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...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 I where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...impotence 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,...
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