 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 ページ
...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...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped, what waits him there ? To see... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 ページ
...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...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him there ? To... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1855 - 176 ページ
...account with heaven," from gloating over the monuments to their cupidity — the jails and alms-houses. "Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ?" No one, with ordinary common sense, will be so foolish as to expect to produce any great amount... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 ページ
...is seen And desolation saddens all the green, — One only master grasps thy whole domain. * * * * Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? " Hearty, cheerful Mr. Cotton," as Lamb calls him, describes Stowe as a Paradise. ON LOBD COBHAM'S... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 ページ
...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...some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his Hook to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 ページ
...a grave ! Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To escape the pressure of contiguous pride 1 If, to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He...scanty blade, 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 1 To... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 ページ
...The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. ТПВ POOR HERDED I[i CITIES } EVILS ; CITY CONTRASTS. company strayed, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 ページ
...a garden, and a grave. THE POOR HERDED IS CITIES ; EVILS } CITY CONTRASTS. Whore, then, ah ! whore shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If, to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 ページ
...account with heaven,' from gloating over the monuments to their cupidity — the jails and alms-houses. ' Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ?' " Mr. Sheriff Watson, one of the founders of Industrial Schools in England, remarks in a letter,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 ページ
...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...scanty blade, 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... | |
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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? 
