| 1828 - 844 pages
...stints [the] smiling plain Takes up a space that ninny poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his parks extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and...hounds. The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, I Has robbed the neiiflib'ring fields of half their growth ; The man of wealth and pride His seat,... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1828 - 348 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds : The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth, Has robb'd the neighboring fields of half their growth : His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green." What can you reply to these beautiful lines, Mrs B. ? 1 fear they... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space 830 cloth, Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...still the same. Not so the loss. 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...The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports arc seen, Indignant... | |
| William Howitt - 1831 - 596 pages
...the promised land. Goldsmith complained in his day, that The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his...His seat, where solitary sports are seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. And it is but too true that the pressure of contiguous pride has... | |
| William Mathers - 1831 - 214 pages
...they engross all the landed property in most places. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space, that many poor supplied, Space for his lake— his...hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Hath robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth, His seat where solitary sports are seen, Indignant... | |
| Stephen Simpson - 1831 - 280 pages
...our useful prodttcls slill the tame. Wot, BO the loss. 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... | |
| 1832 - 952 pages
...the promised laud. Glduwlh complained in his day, that Tlie man of wealth and pride Takes up as|acu that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds. Space for hit hones, équipage, and hounds : 1 he robe tbat wram his limb* in silken sluth Has robb'd the neighbouring... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1833 - 442 pages
...the eye of the philanthropist than the ornamental grounds of the English exclusif, who must have " Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds;" for although the proud domains of the liberal part of the English aristocracy are not always shut against... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...the promised land. Goldsmith complained in bis day, that The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his...His seat, where solitary sports are seen, indignant spurns the cottage from the green. And it is but too true that the pressure of contiguous" pride has... | |
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