| Christopher Christie - 2000 - 374 pages
...away from the owner's mansion. 90 The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supply'd Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds Space for his horses, equipage and hounds . . . 91 Later critics such as JC Loudon found fault with Nuneham for being built 'too like rows of... | |
| Charles Quest-Ritson - 2003 - 302 pages
...domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. . . . The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's...and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are... | |
| Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman - 2003 - 300 pages
..."extended" for hunting and sport, not for agriculture: The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's...bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds. — "Deserted Village," 276-7912 As the farmlands surrounding the deserted village are transformed... | |
| David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 452 pages
...death of the natural English national virtues: . . . The man of wealth and pride. Takes up a space that many poor supplied: Space for his lake. his park's extended bounds. Thus fares the land. by luxury betray'd In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed. But verging to... | |
| Jeremy Black - 2007 - 314 pages
...the tyrant that had destroyed 'sweet Auburn' village: The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's...bounds Space for his horses, equipage and hounds. Although a benign account of the countryside drew on the conventional contrast of rural virtue with... | |
| Janet M. Todd, Janet Todd - 2005 - 516 pages
...(1770) castigated the Brownian improvements of the 'man of wealth and pride' who 'takes up a space that many poor supplied; / Space for his lake, his...bounds, / Space for his horses, equipage and hounds' (lines 275-8). A little later, William Cowper, in Book III of The Task (1785), viewed Brown as an 'omnipotent... | |
| Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pages
...leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's...His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries... | |
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