| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pagina’s
...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, the poor's decay, 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. J*roud swells the... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pagina’s
...Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a...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 - 1821 - 446 pagina’s
...e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid...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 - 1821 - 236 pagina’s
...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,...how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a bappy land. F Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
| 1821 - 558 pagina’s
...The country blooms : a garden and a yravc." ' Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey •'NThe rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay ; " 'Tis...limits stand " Between a splendid and a happy land." If our state be not here truly described, never was description true. Dr. GOLDSMITH, if he used a little... | |
| 1821 - 284 pagina’s
...has now nearly brought this once happy country to ruin, in the following genuine colours — T'rourt swells the- tide with loads of freighted ore, 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 aronod ; Yet count our pains... | |
| 1821 - 284 pagina’s
...; And ev'ry want to luxury ally'd, And ev'ry pang that folly pays to pride. 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. He then describes that... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pagina’s
...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.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pagina’s
...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,...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... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagina’s
...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,...decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand lietwcen a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shouting... | |
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