 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pagina’s
...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, | As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; | While self-dependent power can time defy, | 430 As rocks resist the billows... | |
 | True Worthy Hoit - 1860 - 52 pagina’s
...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, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pagina’s
...Johnson read the poem along some such lines. For here is Johnson's conclusion to The Deserted Village: 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 sky.... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagina’s
...of gain ; Teach him that states of native strength possest; Tho'very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self-dependent power can rime defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.'... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pagina’s
...gain; Teach him that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blest; 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 sky.... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 662 pagina’s
...of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole32 away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 pagina’s
...Journey might be the concluding lines that Johnson had furnished for Goldsmith's Deserted Village (1770): 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 sky.67... | |
 | Chaim David Mazoff - 1998 - 192 pagina’s
...of gain; Teach him that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away. (424-8) How odd then, that Gary's poem, incorporating Goldsmith's example, portrays... | |
 | Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 pagina’s
...must "spurn the rage of gain" and know (these are Johnson's well-known lines that close the poem): 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 sky.... | |
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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... 
