 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 pagina’s
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pagina’s
...the murderers of King James I. of Scotland I (') Dr. Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted...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 - 1848 - 1798 pagina’s
...author la hit ovn poem — Johnson's were rather the Dr. Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking said. (post. April 7. 1778) poor BMaifram ib« st»fc. — CHOKES. labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | 1883 - 668 pagina’s
...are all of which I can be sure'"; and again, " Dr. Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." All the editions of both poems up to the time that Boswell wrote, which, of course, was subsequent... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pagina’s
...Teach him that states, of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away ; 25 While self-dependent power can time defy, As reeks resist the billows and the... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pagina’s
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pagina’s
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - 582 pagina’s
...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 ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent states can time defy. As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pagina’s
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1851 - 794 pagina’s
...for its prosperous manufactories, but which has long since verified the predictions of the bard— " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away." Its location is on one of the beautiful and sparkling affluents of the Towasentha... | |
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Redress the rigours of th' 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... 
