 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
 | 1850 - 604 strani
...readily adopt: " 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." What follows will not easily bear a wise interpretation. Goldsmith speaks of commerce as if ships came... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 strani
...readily adopt : " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's What follows will not easily bear a wise interpretation. Goldsmith speaks of commerce as if ships came... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 strani
...this be joy? 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 strani
...this be joy ? 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 376 strani
...survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand 12 Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, " ' Too much commerce may injure a nation as well as too little ; and there is a wide difference between... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 strani
...to truth, ye statesmen who surrey The rich man's joys increase, the poor'« decay, ea :i Tu TOUT» nts it is good to be here, If thou wilt, let us build — hut for laud. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore... | |
 | 1851 - 612 strani
...popular notion that a country is much enriched by additions to its stock of the precious metals. " Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails it from her shore." The riches of a community depend on the amount of the mass of commodities which... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 strani
..."Long may such goodness live !» CHAPTER VI. STje 3Bo1>ne— Castle JSlaneo— &rmaflj— JSeUast. 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and an happy land. Seldtmitk. THE reader's company would be pleasant on the way to Belfast, through the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 strani
...be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey 265 The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand...ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; 270 Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 strani
...Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a...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... | |
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