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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,...

The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ... - Page 157
by Henry Marlen - 1838
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English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress With Representative Masterpieces ...

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...pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even the bare-worn common is denied. If to the city sped — what waits him...combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; To see those joys the sons of pleasure know Extorted from his fellow creature's woe. Here, while the courtier...

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