 | John Bell - 1789 - 396 pages
...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 traverse climes beyond the western main ; J&t Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And vast Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? Ev'n... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...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 traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? E'en now, perhaps,... | |
 | 1857 - 628 pages
...Depopulation in her train ; And over fields where scattered h&uilets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose. Forced from their homes a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main.' There is no doubt that from about a century before Goldsmith's time there had been a considerable shifting... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound? Ev'n now, perhaps,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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 traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound ? E'en now,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Foru'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around. And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? E'en now,... | |
 | J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...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 traverse climes beyond the western main, "Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around. And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound. GOLDSMITH. THE... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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 traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around. And Niagara stuns with, thund'ring sound ? Even now, perhaps,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayM, The modest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound? Even now, perhaps,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...village fall ? Beheld the duteous son, the sire decay'd, TheTmodest matron, and the blushing maid, Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where, wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thund'ring sound ? Even now,... | |
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Have we 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 blushing maid, Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western... 
