| Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 trang
...useless ore? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ; Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...frequented village fall? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To... | |
| Alexander Marjoribanks - 1853 - 504 trang
...celebrated poet are, however, not altogether inapplicable to this unfortunate state of things — " Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long frequented village fall ? While, scourg'd bj famine from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 trang
...ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ? Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...frequented village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - 1854 - 354 trang
...? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ; 400 Seen Opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern...we not seen, at Pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long-frequented village fall 1 Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 trang
...Village." Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste; 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? Have we not seen at pleasure's lordly call,... | |
| William Collins - 1854 - 430 trang
...useless ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening 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 1 Have we not seen, at Pleasure's lordly call,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1854 - 564 trang
...all her trinmphs but destruetion haste, Like flaring tapers bright'ning as they waste; Soon opulenee, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern depopulation in her train, And over fields whore seatter'd hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose? Have we not seon at pleasure's lordly... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 trang
...destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste ? Seen Opulence, her grandeur to maiutstin, Lead stern Depopulation in her train, And over fields,...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... | |
| 1855 - 540 trang
...? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, lake flaring tapers, bright'ning as they waste ? 400 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 ? Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 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 scatter" d hamlets i In barren solitary pomp repose ? Have we not seen at pleasure's lordly cal , The... | |
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