 | 1904 - 738 trang
...the jail, The palace—and the grave ! The meanest thing, earth's feeblest worm, And honoured in the peasant's form The equal of the great. But if he loved...foes here lies the man Who drew them as they are. 1 ' And as WJ Fox says: " To draw men as they are is the work of the poet no less than that of the... | |
 | 1843 - 376 trang
...steward, whose wealth makes The poor man's little more ; Vet loathed the haughty w retch thai takes I 'nun plundered labour's store. A hand to do, a head to...foes here lies the man Who drew them as they are. ' EBENEZER ELLIOT. It very often happens that the exhilaration of success occupies so entirely the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 trang
...the steward, whose wealth makes The poor man's little more; Yet loathed the haughty wretch that takes From plundered labour's store. A hand to do, a head...foes here lies the man Who drew them as they are." p. 157— 15& In many of the poems already reviewed of Elliott's there are occasional touches of humour,... | |
 | Ebenezer Elliott - 1835 - 306 trang
...wealth makes The poor man's little more ; Yet loath'd the haughty wretch that takes From plunder'd labour's store. A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. SONG. Hard Lesson ! cheap at any price, And sternly taught to me ; That human nature's cowardice Is... | |
 | Ebenezer Elliott - 1835 - 310 trang
...wealth makes The poor man's little more ; Yet loath'd the haughty wretch that takes From plunder'd labour's store. A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. SONG. Hard Lesson ! cheap at any price, And sternly taught to me ; That human nature's cowardice Is... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 trang
...wealth makes The poor man's little more ; Yet loath'd the haughty wretch that takes From plunder'd labour's store. A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER. THY fruit full well the school-boy knows, Wild bramble of the brake ! So, put... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 trang
...Steward, whose wealth makes The poor man's little more ; Yet loath'd the haughty wretch that takes A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart to feel and...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER. THY fruit full well the school-hoy knows, Wild hramhle of the hrake ! So, put... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 348 trang
...man's little more ; Yet loath'd the haughty wretch that takes From plunder'd labour's store. I l I A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart to feel and...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. TO THE BRAMBLE FLOWER. THY fruit full well the school-boy knows, Wild bramble of the brake ! So, put... | |
 | Ebenezer Elliott - 1840 - 194 trang
...lov'd the rich who make The poor man's little more, HI could he praise the rich who take From plunder'd labour's store. A hand to do, a head to plan, A heart...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are. SONG. Hard Lesson I cheap at any price, And sternly taught to me : That human nature's cowardice Is... | |
 | 1843 - 708 trang
...rich who make The poor man's little more, 111 could he praise the rich who take From plundered labor's store. A hand 'to do, a head to plan, A heart to feel...foes, here lies the man Who drew them as they are." Milnes is a true Poet for the People, though not of them. He is a scholar, a gentleman, and a Tory... | |
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His teachers were the torn hearts' wail, The tyrant and the slave, The street, the factory, the jail, The palace — and the grave ! The meanest thing, earth's feeblest worm, He feared to scorn or hate ; And honoured in a peasant's form The equal of the... 
