 Proud thus to meet his smiles, to share his tale, His nuts, his conversation, and his ale. Such were the days — of days long past I sing, When Pride gave place to Mirth without a sting ; Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings...  The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem - Page 46by Robert Bloomfield - 1801 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 158 pages
...long past I sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modem usage. v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate...: Wealth flows around him, fashion lordly reigns; Vet poverty is his, and mental pains. Methinks I hear the mourner thus impart The stifled murmurs of... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield, Capel Lofft - 1800 - 184 pages
...past I sing> -. , When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contrast of modem usage. v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate...mad'ning race, Where'er Refinement shews its hated facet Nor causeless hated;. ..'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched station worse;... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pages
...days, — of days long past I sing, When pride gave place to mirth without a sting ; Ere tyrant custom strength sufficient bore, To violate the feelings of the poor : To leave them distanced in the maddening race, Where'er refmement shows his haughty face : Nor causeless hated; —... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1808 - 180 pages
...past I sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting; Contract of modern asage. • v. 335. Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate...distanc'd in the mad'ning race, Where'er refinement shows its hated face : Nor causeless hated ;.,.'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1815 - 166 pages
...place to mirth without a sting; Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore Contrast of modern Usage. To violate the feelings of the poor; To leave them...distanc'd in the mad'ning race, Where'er refinement shows its hated face: Nor causeless hated;.. .'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched... | |
 | Ephraim Wood - Society of Friends - 1815 - 384 pages
...1 it is too 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 - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...poor; To leave them distanc'd in the mad'ning rocs, Where'er reßnement- shows its hated face : .ZVor causeless hated ; . . . 'tis the peasant's curse,...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... | |
 | Robert Bloomfield - 1820 - 164 pages
...ale. Such were the days,... of days long past I sing, When Pride gave place to mirth without a sting ; Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate the feelings of the poor ; Contrast of modern Usage. v. 336. To leave them distanc'd in the mad'ning race, Where'er refinement... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...distanc'd in the mad'ning race, Where'er refinement shows its hated face : Nor causeless hatred ; — 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched...lordly reigns, Yet poverty is his. and mental pains. * ' * * * * QQ E'en Giles, for all his cares and watchings past, And all his contests with the wintry... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 pages
...ale. Such were the days — of days long past I sing, When pride gave place to mirth without a sting ; Ere tyrant customs strength sufficient bore To violate...distanc'd in the mad'ning race, Where'er refinement shows its hated face : Nor causeless hatred ; — 'tis the peasant's curse, That hourly makes his wretched... | |
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