| Robert Bloomfield - 1801 - 390 Seiten
...hated; — 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse; Destroys life's intercourse; the social plan That rank to rank cements,...lordly reigns ; Yet poverty is his, and mental pains. Methinks I hear the mourner thus impart The stifled murmurs of his wounded heart: * Whence comes this... | |
| 1850 - 638 Seiten
...hated; — 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements,...lordly reigns ; Yet poverty is his and mental pains. Methinks I hear the mourner thus impart The stifled murmurs of his wounded heart ; " Whence comes this... | |
| Robert Bloomfield - 1806 - 212 Seiten
...hated;. ..'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements,...The stifled murmurs of his wounded heart: * Whence conies this change, ungracious, irksome, cold.' ' Whence the new grandeur that mine eyes behold ? '... | |
| Ephraim Wood - 1815 - 384 Seiten
...lamentably well known, that " pride," " tyrant custom," and what is called refinement, Destroys life's intercourse, the social plan, That rank to rank cements, as man to man !." BLOOMFIELD. I am aware also of the novelty, as well as th« perplexity (and perhaps consequent... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 Seiten
...hated ; . . . 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse; Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements as man to man: Wealth ßows around him, Fashion lordly reigns; '%'et poverty is his t and mental pains. Metliinks I hear... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 Seiten
...hatred ; — 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements,...lordly reigns, Yet poverty is his, and mental pains. * ' * * * * E'en Giles, for all his cares and watchings past, And all his contests with the wintry... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 Seiten
...hatred ; — 'tis the peasant's curse, . That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements,...lordly reigns, Yet poverty is his, and mental pains. * ' * * * * E'en Giles, for all his eares and watching* past, And all his eontests with the wintry... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 750 Seiten
...causeless hated ;—'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse; Destroys life's intercourse ; the social plan That rank to rank cements,...lordly reigns; Yet poverty is his, and mental pains. Mcthiuks I hear the mourner thus impart The stilled murmurs of his wounded heart: " Whence comes this... | |
| John Aikin - 1838 - 796 Seiten
...hated ; — 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ¡ Destroys life's return. Oft hae I rov'd by bonnie Boon, To see the...woodbine twine ; And ilka bird sang o' its luve, Methinks I hear the mourner thus impart The stifled murmurs of his wounded heart : " Whence comes this... | |
| John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 Seiten
...hated ;— 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse ; Destroys life's I G H m o 0 R h fuslnun lordly reigns; Yet poverty is his, and mental pains. Methinks I hear the mourner thus impart... | |
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