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" Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength... "
The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Miscellaneous poems. The good ... - Página 73
por Oliver Goldsmith - 1825
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Personal Memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian tribes on ...

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1851 - 794 páginas
...for its prosperous manufactories, but which has long since verified the predictions of the bard— " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away." Its location is on one of the beautiful and sparkling affluents of the Towasentha...
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The Republican, Volumen14

1826 - 812 páginas
...of ground maintained its man;" which is as glaring a falsehood as ever was put upon paper: but < " that states, of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ;" and also in the dedication of this poem that he sincerely believed all he had written. That is,...
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Preromanticism

Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 páginas
...Johnson read the poem along some such lines. For here is Johnson's conclusion to The Deserted Village: That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky....
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Oliver Goldsmith: The Critical Heritage

G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...wraps the polar world in snow, Still let thy voice prevailing over time, Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth, with thy persuasive...Teach him that states of native strength possest; Tho'very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...the polar world in snow, 420 Still let thy voice, prevailing over time, Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth; with thy persuasive strain Teach erring man to spum the rage of gain; Teach him that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still...
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Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland

Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 páginas
...wraps the polar world in snow, 240 Still let thy voice prevailing over time, Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth, with thy persuasive...Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean...
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Anxious Allegiances: Legitimizing Identity in the Early Canadian Long Poem

Chaim David Mazoff - 1998 - 192 páginas
...incompatible3 but it is also the function of poetry, the "first to fly where sensual joys invade" (408), to Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean...
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Samuel Johnson

Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...Journey might be the concluding lines that Johnson had furnished for Goldsmith's Deserted Village (1770): That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.67...
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Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century

Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 páginas
...must "spurn the rage of gain" and know (these are Johnson's well-known lines that close the poem): That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky....
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Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century

Laura Brown - 2001 - 292 páginas
...social-economic account of and context for that formula. Shakespeare's figure, it served to protect: That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky....
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