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...the ruined country-girl: a home reproof to obdurate men; and a strong warning to unguarded innocence. 'Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside, To scape...contiguous pride; If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide,...

...home. In contrast with Johnson, Goldsmith was less impressed by the 'artificial plenty' of urban life: If to the city sped - what waits him there? To see...he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind. In Goldsmith's case it was not so much manufacturing,...

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