 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides tUc weekly bread: He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void...state, Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ; Him portion"'! maids, apprentiu'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...gate ? Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise ? The Man of Ross, each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans, bless'd, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...of Ross," each lisping babe replies. BI hold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Rons divides the weekly bread: He feeds yon alms-house, neat, but void of state, Where Ape and Want si* smiling at the gate ; Him portion'd maids, appmitii-'d orphans blest, The young who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...260 Who taught that heav'n-directed spire to rise ? " The MAN of Ross!" each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The...state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : 266 Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Fishing - 1813 - 820 pages
...repose? Who taught that Heav'n directed Spire to rise? ' THE MAN OF Ross/ each lisping Babe replies! Behold the Market-place with Poor o'erspread! THE...Want sit smiling at the Gate: Him portion'd Maids, apprentic'd Orphans blest ; The Young who labour, and the Old who rest. Is any Sick? THE MAN OF Ross... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - Falconry - 1813 - 568 pages
...repose? Who taught that Heay'n directed Spire to rise? ' THE MAN OF Ross,' each lisping Babe replies! Behold the Market-place with Poor o'erspread! THE MAN OF Ross divides the tceekly Bread: He feeds yon Alms-house, neat, but void of State, Where Age and Want sit smiling at... | |
 | James M'Donald - Spellers - 1815 - 170 pages
..." The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. a Behold the markets-place, with poor o-'er spread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : ^ He feeds yon alms-house, neat but void of state, . 5 Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 pages
...pointed towards the sky ? — Every child that you meet will tell you, that it was the Man of Ross. .' Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The...state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate." The market-place of the town of Ross was filled with poor who came to receive bread, which the Man... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...attracted by the following couplet, which is inserted upon the wall of one of the houses : " Who built this Alms-house neat, but void of state, " Where Age and Want sit smiling at the gate ?" POPE. " The Right Hon. John Smith, Esq. Chief Baron of the Exchequer of Scotland, and one of the... | |
 | John Evans - England - 1818 - 564 pages
...repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise I The MAN of Ross, each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread, The MAN of Ross divides the daily bread ; He feeds yon alms-house neat but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the... | |
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But clear and artless pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross," each... 
