 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 pages
...is seen And desolation saddens all the green, — One only master grasps thy whole domain. * * * * Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? " Hearty, cheerful Mr. Cotton," as Lamb calls him, describes Stowe as a Paradise. ON LOBD COBHAM'S... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1855 - 176 pages
...account with heaven," from gloating over the monuments to their cupidity — the jails and alms-houses. "Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ?" No one, with ordinary common sense, will be so foolish as to expect to produce any great amount... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape...pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his Hook to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 pages
...The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. ТПВ POOR HERDED I[i CITIES } EVILS ; CITY CONTRASTS. company fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 pages
...account with heaven,' from gloating over the monuments to their cupidity — the jails and alms-houses. ' Where then, ah where, shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ?' " Mr. Sheriff Watson, one of the founders of Industrial Schools in England, remarks in a letter,... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...a garden, and a grave. THE POOR HERDED IS CITIES ; EVILS } CITY CONTRASTS. Whore, then, ah ! whore shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride ? If, to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flocks to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...where, shall poverty reside, To escape the pressure of contiguous pride 1 If, to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 pages
...band — And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To scape...pressure of contiguous pride ? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons... | |
 | HAROLD FREMDLING - 1857 - 482 pages
...country and town, as, it cannot be denied, he still is, though I believe not in the same degree. " Where then, ah! where, shall poverty reside To 'scape...pressure of contiguous pride ? If, to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...themselves over that chamher, whose walls vied with the richest colours of the most glowing flowers." " Where, then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of pride ?" " This is more particularly the case with the counties to London, over which the Genins of... | |
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And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped— What waits him there ? To see profusion that he must not share... 
