 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feast tho' small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contigious palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his...costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loath his vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace" rear its head, To shame ihe vied in coolness with his grot? His court with ne - loath his vegetable meal ; But calm, and bred in igr.orume and toil, F.ach wish contractin.s, fits... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...banquet deal; To make him loath his vegetable meal ; But calm, and hrrd iu ignorance and toil, F.nch wish contracting, fits him to the soil. Cheerful at morn he wakes from sbort repose, Breathes the ktca sir, and car»ls as be ft**, \Vilh patient angle trolls the finny deep,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...hnmble shed ; Wo costly lord the snmptnons banqnet deal, To make him loath his vegetable meal ; Bnt calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil. Cheerfnl at morn, he wakes from short repose. Breathes the keen air, and carols M he goes ; With pattent... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...sees his little lot the lot of all : Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanjiess of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous...banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable meal ; Kilt calm, and brrrl in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil. Cheerful... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. To shame the neatness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loath his vegetable meal; But calm and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 282 pages
...peasant's hat, his feasts tho' smatr, " He sees his little lot the lot of all; " Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, " To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; " \o costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, " To make him loath his vegetable meal; " But calm,... | |
 | Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 688 pages
...peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed." If a people are placed in a state of humility and degradation, can it be said, that to get out of that... | |
 | 1816 - 300 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feast tho' small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his...ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him for the soil, Cheerful at morn he walces from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...the peasant's hut, his feasts tho' small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his...costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loath his vegetable meal; But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him... | |
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Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed... 
