The widening distance which I daily see, Has Wealth done this? - then Wealth's a foe to me; Foe to our rights ; that leaves a powerful few The paths of emulation to pursue: For emulation stoops to us no more: The hope of humble industry is o'er; The blameless... The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem - Seite 47von Robert Bloomfield - 1803 - 129 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1805 - 948 Seiten
...wealth's a fix to me ; Foe to our rights; that leaves a powerful I..W The paths of emulation to pursue : For emulation stoops to us no more ; The hope of humble industry it o'er*? The blameless hope, the cheering sweet presage Of future comforts for declining age. Can... | |
| 1850 - 638 Seiten
...concentrated in the hands of ' 32,000.'* The absorption of small farms is thus lamented by Bloomfield : — ' Can my sons share from this paternal hand The profits with the labours of the land ?. No : though indulgent Heaven its blessing deigns, IVhere's the small farm to suit my scanty means ? '... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1806 - 212 Seiten
...the new grandeur that mine eyes behold ? ' The widening distance which I daily see, * Has Wealth done this?.. .then Wealth's a foe to me ; * Foe to our...humble industry is o'er; ' The blameless hope, the entering sweet presage ' Of future comforts for declining age. ' Can my sons share from this paternal... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1806 - 198 Seiten
...pursue :.„. Subject continrr.l. * For em illation* stoops to us uo more: * The hope of humble iudustry is o'er ; * The blameless hope, the cheering sweet...paternal hand ' The profits with the labours of the land 1 * No ; though indulgent Heaven its blessing deigns, ' Where's the small farm to suit my scanty means'!... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 Seiten
...me; „Foe to vur rights ; that leaves a powerful few „ The paths of emulation to pursue : . . . „For emulation stoops to us no more: „ The hope...„Can my sons share from this paternal hand „ The proßts with the labours of the land ? ,,£?o ; though indulgent Heaven its blessing deigns, „ Jf... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...wealth's a foe to me; Foe to our rights ; that leaves a powerful few The paths of emulation to pursue:— For emulation stoops to us no more : The hope of humble...share from this paternal hand The profits with the lahours of the land ? No ; though indulgent Heaven its blessing deigns, Where's the small farm to suit... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...pursue : — For emulation stoops to us no more : The hope of humhle industry is o'er : The hlameless And would not bear addition to his cares : With pity...said he, ' Will you embrace contempt and beggary 1 lahours of the land ? No ; though indulgent Heaven its hlessing deigns, Where's the small farm to suit... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...a foe to me ; Foe to our tights ; that leaves a powerful few The paths uf emulation to pursue: — For emulation stoops to us no more : The hope of humble...industry is o'er: The blameless hope, the cheering sweet preiage Of future comforts for declining age. Can my sons share from this paternal hand The pvolits... | |
| James Thomson - 1842 - 440 Seiten
...a foe to me ; Foe to our rights ; that leaves a pow'rful few The paths of emulation to pursue : — For emulation stoops to us no more : The hope of humble...with the labours of the land ? No ; tho' indulgent Heaveu its hlessing deigns, Where's the small farm to suit my scanty means ? Content, the Poet sings,... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1845 - 296 Seiten
...to me : ' Foe to our rights ; that leaves a powerful few ' The paths of emulation to pursue : — ' For emulation stoops to us no more : ' The hope of...' The profits with the labours of the land ? ' No ; though indulgent Heaven its blessing deigns, ' Where 's the small farm to suit my scanty means ?... | |
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