 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 páginas
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.*... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 506 páginas
...be dictated by a sentiment analogous to that which is conveyed in four of Goldsmith's lines : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent states can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." The principal public festivals of China... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 páginas
...Teach him that states, of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. RETALIATION. FIRST PRINTED... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 200 páginas
...Teach him that states, of native strength possess' d, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd; 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 páginas
...a strange way of sneaking of th« lines of an author In hit oina poem — Johnson's were rtlher the Dr. Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking...labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time dcly, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now-adays," said... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 páginas
...425 Teach him] that states, of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; | That Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, |...away ; | While self-dependent power can time defy, | 430 As rocks resist the billows and the sky. | 428. The image would be clearer, if this perish as... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 páginas
...Goldsmith, by his sincere friend and admirer, JOSHUA REYNOLDS." Page 52, line 17. — "Dr. Johnson favored me * * by marking the lines which he furnished to...Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." — BOSWELL. RETALIATION. Page 55—60. First published on the 18th of April, 1774, a fortnight after... | |
 | True Worthy Hoit - 1860 - 52 páginas
...element of illuminating soul, or they will fall, a lifeless mass, into chaotic ruin. Let us remember "That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away ; Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 páginas
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength posses t, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the say.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 páginas
...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 23 23 " Dr. Johnson favoured me at the same time by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." Bos well, by Croker, p. 174.— PC EDWIN AND ANGELINA. (THE HERMIT.) A BALLAD. " Written 1764, and... | |
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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... 
