 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 198edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1824 - 908 pages
...for his horses, equipage, and hounds ; " The robe that 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." What can you reply to these beautiful lines, Mrs. B. ? I fear they are but too faithful a representation... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robb'd M:/ ; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies. While thus... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd 'the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...horses, equipage and hounds : The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green ; Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies. While thus... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1828 - 348 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds : The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth, Has robb'd the neighboring fields of half their growth : His seat, where solitary...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green." What can you reply to these beautiful lines, Mrs B. ? 1 fear they are but too faithful a representation... | |
 | 846 pages
...horses, equipage and hounds. The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robbed the neighb'rlng fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside To 'scape the pressure of contagions pride? If to some common's... | |
 | 1828 - 844 pages
...silken sloth, I Has robbed the neiiflib'ring fields of half their growth ; The man of wealth and pride His seat, where solitary sports are seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. Where then, ah, where shall poverty reside To 'scape the pressure of contagious pride? If to some common's... | |
 | William Howitt - Almanacs, English - 1831 - 596 pages
...allotment. They have been totally driven out of the promised land. Goldsmith complained in his day, that The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that...seen. Indignant spurns the cottage from the green. And it is but too true that the pressure of contiguous pride has driven farther, from that day to this,... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - Banks and banking - 1831 - 280 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... | |
 | William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Hath robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth, His seat where solitary...seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green, Around the world each needful product flies, For all the luxuries the world supplies; While tl us the... | |
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