 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...  Poems and Essays - Stran 35avtor: Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 218 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 strani
...marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, "...defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-daya, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 strani
...written by a greater than Goldsmith, assures us, ' That trade's proud empire hastes to swift dec»y, As ocean sweeps the labour'd 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 strani
...strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That Trade's...defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. [PARNELL.] FAK in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend Hermit grew... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 strani
...strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's...empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy. As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 strani
...may still be very blest; That trade's prond empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; 'While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. " nnURN, gentle Heraiit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...r;»«{e of gnin ; Teach him that states, of nativeslrt'iigth possest, Though very poor, may siill ur praise ; Wealth, lineage, honors, conquest, or a throne, Are what the wise would labor'd mole away ; While self dependent pow'r can time defy, A; rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 strani
...strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain: Teach him that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. STERN Winter... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 strani
...strain , Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's...empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the lahour'd mole away ; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | 1811 - 840 strani
...him, that State*, of native strength posrti-s'd, " Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; " That Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, " As ocean sweeps the labour 'd mole'ana}' ; " While self-dependent pow'r can time dtfy, " As rocks resist the billuns and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 strani
...still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labonr'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. oAY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty, What... | |
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