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. Poems and Essays - Stran 30avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 218 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1827 - 364 strani
...answer. • Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man'» joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Vortex is likely to find quite as many prototypes in London as in India. Extravagance is always selfish... | |
| 1827 - 532 strani
...economy, are applicable to the wise and beuevoleut statesmen of all times — Tis theirs to judpe, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. On the Modern Ornaments of Architecture, Sfc. IN no age since the Augustan era of Rome, perhaps, has... | |
| 1828 - 962 strani
...contemplate their effects on that important part of the community, the labouring class, without perceiving " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land ;" and without wishing that the other course had been pursued, even though we had been somewhat less... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 strani
...friends to trnth, 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...shouting Folly hails them from her shore : Hoards ev'n beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| Stephen Simpson - 1831 - 280 strani
...delight. " 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...freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from the shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
| William Logan Fisher - 1831 - 132 strani
...commerce!* " 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."f Having traced, as I conceive, pauperism to its true sources, and enforced my theory by a few... | |
| Adam Burt - 1833 - 160 strani
...friends of truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay — 'Tis your'a to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Qoldimitk OP kings, and those denominated great, Peers, Princes, Heroes, Ministers of State, Let laurell'd... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 strani
...DESERTED VILLAGE. 89 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...shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| 1836 - 784 strani
...Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, "fis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Kingdoms at length, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour, not their own ; At every draught... | |
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