His best companions innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth. But times are altered, trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Along the lawn where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp... Odd Hours of a Physician - Page 122by James Edmund Garretson - 1871 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; * Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumb'rous pomp repose : And every want to luxury ally'd, And every pang that folly paj s to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn, where scattev'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumb'rous pomp repose, And every want to luxury ally'd, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pages
...trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumb'rous pomp repose...allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentler hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those calm desires that ask'd but little room, thful sports... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...comparing the world to his hour-glass, says — But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn...hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ;(1) And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1899 - 608 pages
...pessimistic note is struck in Goldsmith's ' Deserted Village ' : — ' Trade's unfeeling train Usurp the laud and dispossess the swain. Along the lawn, where scattered...hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.' What a familiar picture this conjures up of the heavy London mansion standing where it ought not, on... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose...pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, 4 Those calm desires that ask'd but little room, Those healthful sports that grac'd the peaceful scene,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumb'rous pomp repose...allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentler hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those calm desires that ask'd but little room, Those healthful... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose, And every want to opulence allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,... | |
| 1843 - 698 pages
...trade's unfeeling train _, Usurp the land, and dispossess the ewain : Along the lawn, where scalter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury ally'd. And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours, thai plenty bade to bloom —... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to opulence allied ; And every pang that folly pays to pride. These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,... | |
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