 Redress the rigours of the 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...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - Stran 156avtor: James Boswell - 1901Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 500 strani
...lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which -are only the last four.: — i <c That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, "...and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 strani
...gain; 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...sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 56 THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. POETICAL EPISTLE,... | |
 | 1803 - 294 strani
...gain ; 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...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. V THE TRAVELLER; OB A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY:... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 strani
...gain ; 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-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 strani
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT; •, A POEM. BY T. PARNELL, DD WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY GOLDSMITH. THE... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 strani
...Goldsmith, assures us, ' That trade's proud empire hastes Vo swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labourM mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows of the sky.' Who is so insensible to the charms of fiction, as in this passage to lament the absence... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 strani
...gain ; 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...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. $7 THE HAUNCH OF VENISON, POETICAL EPISTLE... | |
 | 1806 - 330 strani
...gain : Teach him that states of native strength possesf, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. ' 101 FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN... | |
 | 1806 - 852 strani
...Gain ; 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...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While Self-dependent Pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky ! In the third stanza, Gray considers... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 474 strani
...gain; 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-dependant power can time defy, As rocks Desist the billows and the sky. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN... | |
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