 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...home. In contrast with Johnson, Goldsmith was less impressed by the 'artificial plenty' of urban life: If to the city sped - what waits him there? To see...arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind. In Goldsmith's case it was not so much manufacturing, but the spread of luxury connected with the growth... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 pages
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 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 650 pages
...is denied. 25. foaming, from the word 'mantle', the foam which covers the surface of liquor (OED). If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see...arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; 190 To see those joys the sons of pleasure know. Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe. Here, while... | |
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And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — What waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind ; To see each joy the sons of pleasure know,... 
