 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pagina’s
...spheres." 3- "%nd now when busy crowds retire e " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey Thu rich man's joys Increase, the poor's decay, "Tis yours...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Q. What is this last species called ? A. Heroic measure, and is the most common species of verse in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, unite ; And ony sumph that keeps up spite, In conscience I abhor him. Blit laud. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hail« them from her shore... | |
 | 1886 - 372 pagina’s
...who die every day for want of it." — Pope Greyoiy the Great (St. Gregory.) Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase,...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. — Goldsmith. The oppononts of reform are tho p.irents of revolution. It is tho continuous increase... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 pagina’s
...leadership. As so aptly phrased in Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: "Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase,...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES. UNITED STATES. I960, 1965, AND 1966 « '• • « •» Ifcl, 44ilngl. .'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 pagina’s
...'Deserted Village' will suffice to bring out the terms of comparison and contrast: Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase,...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and happy land. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
...Poet now proceeds to the causes which produced the desertion of his village: Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase,...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. . . Goldsmith undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 pagina’s
...passage contains the only use of the first person possessive plural in the poem: Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase,...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 pagina’s
...at any rate, will be bright and great enough for them, so they think. Were you to ask one of them ' how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land,' he might reply, ' As wide as the breadth of the Tasman Sea.' The same insular, self-contained temper... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - 2005 - 232 pagina’s
...fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase,...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and happy land . . . Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;... | |
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Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. 
