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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ... - Page 42
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1791
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feast though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loathe...
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Five Months Abroad; Or, Letters from the Ocean and the Land: Written During ...

Asa McFarland - Europe - 1851 - 196 pages
...the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal; To make him loathe...
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Studies from the English Poets

George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...the clime, and all its rage disarm : Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all. Sees no contiguous palace rear its head. To shame the meanness of his humble shed : 180 No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him...
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Practical English composition

Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts tho' small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe...
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The Class Book of Poetry

Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe...
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The Story of English Literature

Anna Buckland - English literature - 1882 - 548 pages
...here." The Traveller turns to Switzerland, the land of republican equality, where the peasant — " Sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed." But the very absence of any class above him cramps his ambition,...
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A course of elementary reading in science and literature, compiled by J.M. M ...

James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe...
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The Coming Democracy

George Harwood - Democracy - 1882 - 412 pages
...majority, is much more bearable when " Though poor the peasant's hut, his feast though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humhle shed." But even if democracies do not desire such a uniformity, it...
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The Elzevier Library Poetry Series, Volume 1

1883 - 172 pages
...the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head, To shame the meanness of his humble shed — No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe...
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