 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
 | 1852 - 300 strani
...ct similia. C 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, e'en beyond the Miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
 | 1886 - 372 strani
...(St. Gregory.) 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. — Goldsmith. The oppononts of reform are tho p.irents of revolution. It is tho continuous increase... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 strani
...Deserted Village: "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." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES. UNITED STATES. I960, 1965, AND 1966 « '• • « •» Ifcl, 44ilngl. .'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 strani
...and contrast: 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 happy land. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 strani
...his village: 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. . . Goldsmith undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 strani
...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted...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.... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 strani
...in the poem: 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 an happy land Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 strani
...at any rate, will be bright and great enough for them, so they think. Were you to ask one of them ' how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land,' he might reply, ' As wide as the breadth of the Tasman Sea.' The same insular, self-contained temper... | |
 | Frances Ilmberger, Alan Robinson - 2002 - 206 strani
...trenchantly with the issue of global trade and its boosting of consumerism, in lines that seem to echo Jago: Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. (529, II. 269-72)... | |
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