 | Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...created on the rifmg ground, With tempting afpecl drew me from my road, For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. (Hard is the Fate of the infirm and poor !) H:re craving for a morfel of their bread, A paraper'd menial forc'd me from the door, To feek a... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...erected on the riling ground, With tempting afpefl drew me from my road. For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. (Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor!) Here craving for amorfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door $ To feek a fhelter in an humbler... | |
 | Thomas Percival - 1781 - 330 pages
...creeled on the rifingground, With tempting afpect drew me from my road ; For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor! Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door, To feek a fhcker in an... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...on the rifing ground, With tempting afpeft drew me from my road ; For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ! Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To feek a fhcker in an... | |
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...rifing ground, With tempting afpect drew rne from my road; For Plenty there a refidence has-/ound, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor f * Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To leek a fbelter... | |
 | Prolusiones - 1788 - 204 pages
...the fute of the infirm and poor ! Here, as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door, To feek a fhelter in an humbler fhed. V. Oh ! take me to your hofpitable dome ; Keen blows the wind, and piercing is the cold .' Short is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...crcned on the rifing ground, With tempting alpeu drew me from my road ; For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ' Here, as I crav'da mortel of their broad, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To feck a flielter in... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1791 - 718 pages
...erected on the riling ground, With tempting atpeft drew mefrom my road j For Pie my there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ! Here, a. I crav'da morfel cf their bread, A pamper d menial drove me from the door, To feek a fhelter in... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...on the rifing ground, With tempting afpect diew me 1'rom my road j For Plenty there a refidence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor I Were, as I crav'da morfcl of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To feck a fheltcr... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...on the rifmg ground, With tempting afpeft drew me from my road, 10 For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode : (Hard is...bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door, 15 To feek a fbelter in an humbler fhed. • FlrJI printed 176 .. Oh ! take me to your hofpitable dome,... | |
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Yon house, erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road ; For plenty there a residence has found, And grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the... 
