| James Roach - 1792 - 284 pages
...from my road j For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificient abode. Hard IV. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor! Here a» I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door; To feck a fbelter in an humbler fbed. V.... | |
| T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, erefted on the rifmg ground, With tempting afpeft drew me from my road, 10 For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent...: (Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor!) Here craving for a morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door, 15 To feek a fbelter... | |
| James Anderson - 1793 - 380 pages
...erected on a rising ground, With tempting* aspect, dfew me .tom my road; j With plenty here, a residence has found, And grandeur, a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ! Here as I crav'da morsel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door, To seek a fbelter in... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, erected on the rifing ground, 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 fhelter in... | |
| British poetical miscellany - 1805 - 262 pages
..." Yon houfc, erefted on the rifing 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! There as I crav'da morfel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door, To feek a fhelter... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...tears. Yon houfe, creeled on the rifing ground, With tempting afpecl; drew me from my road ; For plenty there a refidence has found, And grandeur a magnificent...(Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor,') Here, as 1 crav'da morfel of their. bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door, To fcek a lheller in... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...erected on a rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from the road, For Plenty there a residence has found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor, Here craving for a morsel of their bread, A pamper'd menial forc'd me from the door, To seek a shelter in... | |
| W. M. - 1801 - 356 pages
...rifing ground, With tempting afpeft diew me from the road; V For Plenty there a refidence has found, Ami 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 flielter in... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the rising groand , . "With tempting aspect drew me ]rom my road|^ »'l For Plenty there a residence has found ? And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor! Here , as I uav'da morsel of their Bread ,} A [lamper'J menial drove ma I nun the door T > seek a shelter... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 178 pages
...erected on the rising ground, With tempting aspect drew me from my road: For Plenty there a residence had found, And Grandeur a magnificent abode. Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor ! Here, as I crav'da morsel of their bread, A pamper'd menial drove me from the door To seek a shelter in a... | |
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