 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste [ Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd. The modest matron, and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste ? Seen Opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...we not seen, at Pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the... | |
 | 1857 - 628 trang
...Blackie tries to write of the Highlands now. Goldsmith had, quite as plainly as Professor Blackie — ' Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...Depopulation in her train ; And over fields where scattered h&uilets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose. Forced from their homes a melancholy train,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste ; Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste. Like flaring tapers, bright'ning as they waste ; Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...we not seen at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the... | |
 | J. C. - 1806 - 156 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers, bright'ning as they waste ; Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...depopulation in her train ; And over fields, where scattered hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose ? Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 trang
...ore ; Seen all her triumphs hut destruction haste, Like flaring tapers, bright'ning as they waste ; or views in all his coutMA *ccne so gay : heroic noble...and deserts her Paplmn grove I'or our more favor'd long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay d, The modest matron, and the... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste ; Seen Opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling, long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste ; Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...we not seen at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, TheTmodest matron, and the... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 trang
...but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers, bright'ning as they waste ; Seen opulence, her grandenr to maintain, Lead stern depopulation in her train,...we not seen at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayM, The modest matron, and the... | |
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Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern depopulation in her train, And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose? 
