 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1859 - 62 pagina’s
...verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant...save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! " And nearly eighteen hundred years before Goldsmith, the inimitable satirist of antiquity (Juvenal)... | |
 | Hermann Levy - 1966 - 270 pagina’s
...ancestral home ; and Goldsmith's Deserted Village gave poetical expression to the desolation of the land : — "The mournful peasant leads his humble...save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave." That the exodus was in many cases simply to be traced to enclosures and engrossing is evident from... | |
 | Thomas Gallagher - 1987 - 372 pagina’s
...Have we not seen, at pleasure's lordly call, The smiling long frequented village fall? While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land The mournful peasant...to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave . . . Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay . . . —Oliver... | |
 | Teresa Calvano - 1996 - 310 pagina’s
...the swain, along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose unwieldly wealth and cumbrus pomp repose.., while scourged by famine from the smiling land, the...one arm to save, the country blooms - a garden and a grave3. È evidente che Goldsmith per primo, dopo quasi cinquant'anni dall'inizio della creazione del... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 pagina’s
...first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While scourged by famine from the smiling land, The...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. 180 Where then, ah, where, shall poverty reside. To scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some... | |
 | Eve Darian-Smith - 1999 - 292 pagina’s
...the land, by luxury betrayed; In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed; But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. (Goldsmith, The Deserted Village [1769], quoted in Hoyles 1991: 39) Notions of the ideal garden shifted... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 pagina’s
...first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While scourged by famine from the smiling land, The...save, The country blooms - a garden, and a grave, (lines 297-304) He blamed the landowning classes for letting their love of money overcome their traditional... | |
 | David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 452 pagina’s
...the land. by luxury betray'd In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed. But verging to decline. its splendours rise. Its vistas strike. its palaces...save. The country blooms — a garden. and a grave. 1Goldsmith 1773) The mournful exiled peasant sinks. as fate would have it. in the swamps of America.... | |
 | John E. Crowley - 2001 - 386 pagina’s
...first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While scourged by famine from the smiling land, The...save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. In "The Removal of the Village at Nuneham," William Whitehead, poet laureate, depicted the cottagers... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...the land, by luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed; But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces...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,... | |
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While, scourged by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave. 
