 The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds: The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighbouring fields of half...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 196edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1863 - 392 pages
...his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth ; r -' '• ,rt r. His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green ; Around the wold each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies : While thus... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - American literature - 1987 - 248 pages
...Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe thai wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His...seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies: While thus the... | |
 | Teresa Calvano - Art - 1996 - 310 pages
...supplied; space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, space for his horses, equipage and hounds; ...His seat, where solitary sports are seen, indignant spurns the cottage from the green2. 1 La fama di Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74) è soprattutto legata al romanzo ¡I vicario di Wakefield;... | |
 | Charles Quest-Ritson - Gardening - 2003 - 302 pages
...Space for his horses, equipage and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies: While thus the... | |
 | Karen Bloom Gevirtz - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 236 pages
...which complains that "The man of wealdi and pride / Takes up a space that many poor supplied" (275-76). His "seat, where solitary sports are seen, / Indignant spurns the cottage from the green" while the "sounds of population fail" (281-82, 125). In the hands of virtuous, novelistic widows land,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies: While thus the... | |
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