| 560 pages
...Great Western, and a heavy blow has been struck at the sea itself by Brunei and the South Devon. " But times are altered, trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess the swain." GOLDSMITH'S Des. Village. The result of all this will be that in a very few years more, the... | |
| William Marrat - 1816 - 632 pages
...gave no more;. His hest compamon* innoeence and health, And his hest richesj ignorance of wealth. Bat times are altered, trade's unfeeling train, . Usurp the land and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn where scattered hamlets rose, Uuweildy wealth, and cumu'rous poixp repose. And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered: trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose; And... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered : trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth, and cumberous pomp repose ;... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...gave no more; His beet companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Alon£ the lawn, where scatterU hamlets rose. Unwieldy wealth and cumbtrous pomp repose ; And... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered: trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn, where scattev'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumb'rous pomp repose, And... | |
| 1851
...a broken skin ; but we often see iiim kick up his heels when taken from his coach, after • having performed his stage of ten miles in five minutes under the honr. " But time* are altered, trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain." So sung Goldsmith,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 pages
...maintained its man ; His best companions innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth. But times are altered, trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain.' " One of these cold theorists," he added, " came once to visit me. I received him as well as... | |
| William Smith Ellis - Hurstpierpoint (Sussex, England) - 1837 - 90 pages
...and infinite alarm ; Which way I fly is change ; myself am change." They picture another Auhurn :— Times are altered : trade's unfeeling train . Usurp the land and dispossess the swain. Along the plain where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumhrous pomp repose." Here... | |
| John Peace - Railroads - 1842 - 50 pages
...was ordained to protect. It was an ancient boast in England that every man's house was his castle, But times are altered, Trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. No man's house is his castle. The poor man's dwelling and his landlord's may both be swept away... | |
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