| 1800 - 322 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury belray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, . . Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pagina’s
...of dress : Thus fares the laud, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus faies the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while... | |
| 1806 - 330 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 526 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; , srnnrg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd. But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While scourg'd by famirie from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And... | |
| 1814 - 310 pagina’s
...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But, verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And... | |
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