...e di indignazione pervadono l'intero poema quando i suoi occhi si posano su sweet smiling villages, loveliest of the lawn, thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn... but times are altered; trad unfeeling train usurps the land and dispossesses the swain, along the lawn,...

...round thy bowers their chearful influence shed, These were thy charms — But all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,...domain,'' And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain; 7 40 No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choaked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along...

...and the "unvaried lapwing cries," as in the following passage from Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half...plain, No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern...

...pastoral and — probably - nostalgic memories of Goldsmith's Irish childhood. Now it is destroyed: Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen And desolation...plain; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy way. The sentiments are strongly felt. But Goldsmith's descriptions...

...founded largely by Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, and redolent with nostalgia for a vanished past: Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all the thy green:36 There are many points of contact between this and Morgan's record of demolished public...

...were uncommon, but attracted much hostile criticism, above all in Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village': Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn; Amidst thy bow'rs the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the...

...round thy bowers their cheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,...plain: No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weedy way. Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern...

...roads began. DOCUMENT 145 Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), lines ¿5, 64, 265-82, 3°3-8 Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...thy green. One only master grasps the whole domain, 142 And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain . . . And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...

...jolting, midsentence interruption, and without allowing us to catch a breath, rushes confirmation upon us: Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green. (35-38) The apostrophic suddenness of the departure from the seemingly static and secure idealized...

...omitted section moves unremittingly from the local and specific to the representative and generic: Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy...hand is seen, And Desolation saddens all thy green. . . . And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand Far, far away thy children leave the land.5...