| 1840 - 582 páginas
...special privileges and immunities are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet be aadly admonished ' how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.' But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 páginas
...pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from he shore ; Hoards... | |
| Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 358 páginas
...light. Amusements of the Acadians. THE NEUTRAL FRENCH, otf, THE EXILES OF NOVA SCOTIA. CHAPTER 1. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." IT was on the evening of the first of September, 1755, that a family, inhabiting an old fashioned,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 páginas
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
| Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 360 páginas
...to light. Amusements of the Acadians. THE NEUTRAL FRENCH, OR, THE EXILES OF NOVASCOTIA. CHAPTER I. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide i.he limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." IT was on the evening of the first of September,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 páginas
...pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 't Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells... | |
| 1841 - 496 páginas
...criminals—but must feel sensibly, in spite of all her refinements of art, and luxury, and knowledge— " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land !" The author proceeds to describe the nature and constitution of the Inns of Court, and the judicial... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 páginas
...pain; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks— if this be joy? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 páginas
...friends to truth , yc. statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase , the poor's decay, T is your's to judge , how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Hoards... | |
| Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 páginas
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village.... | |
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