| Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 páginas
...trnth, ye statesmen who snrvey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yonrs to jndge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Prond swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shonting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 páginas
...fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting, asks if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase,...shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich me.n flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| 1814 - 310 páginas
...fashion's brightest arts decoy-. The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase,...shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards ev'n beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 páginas
...fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase,...shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 páginas
...fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this he joy? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase,...Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shooting Folly hnils them from her shore ; Hoards, fven beyond the miser's wish, abonml, And rich men... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 páginas
...fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase,...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. 't Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore... | |
| 1850 - 938 páginas
...admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt : — " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis yours to jndge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." What follows will not easily... | |
| 1828 - 956 páginas
...contemplate their effects on that important part of the community, the labouring class, without perceiving " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land : " and without wishing that the other course had been pursued, even though we had been somewhat less... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy i Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase,...And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 páginas
...? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud. Proud swells the tidr with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore... | |
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