 | 1846 - 698 pages
...countryman. Oliver Goldsmith, — or, having read, that he has failed to learn the moral they convey ? • The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that...that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighb'ring fields of half their growth : His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 pages
...half a tillage stint the smiling plain ; " or he would not have described so circumstantially how " The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that...bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds ; " nor how " The seat where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green."... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1846 - 548 pages
...bounded space : the space between two objects Is either natural, incidental, or designedly formed ; The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied. GOLDSMITH. The room is that which is the fruit of design, to suit the convenience of persons ; For... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...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 many poor supplied ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth.... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant... | |
 | Raymond Williams - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...grounds. It is based on engrossing — One only master grasps the whole domain — and has as its result that the man of wealth and pride Takes up a space...bounds, Space for his horses, equipage and hounds. I have already referred to an earlier example of this — perhaps in the 'wassel days' — in the Herberts'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - American literature - 1987 - 248 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...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 seat,... | |
 | Ian Michael - Education - 1987 - 652 pages
...frequently gratuitous and sometimes overconfident, as in one of McLeod's notes on The Deserted Village: The man of wealth and pride. Takes up a space that...bounds. Space for his horses, equipage and hounds. 'Note The horse is supposed to have been so named from his obedience and tractablenese, the obsolete... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...Along the lawn where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unweildy wealth and cumb'rous pomp repose: He says now, -The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many poor supplied. That the domain of the ancient Feudal Lord, or Rural Squire, was less extensive than that of the modern... | |
 | Teresa Calvano - Art - 1996 - 310 pages
...descrivere. Che cosa ha visto Goldsmith di così desolante nelle sue escursioni nella campagna inglese? ...The man of wealth and pride takes up a space that...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... | |
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Yet count 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 many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses,... 
