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. The Quarterly review - Page 4631835Full view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...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. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards... | |
| Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay ; "I'is yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." THE END. 1OXDON: Printed by James Swan, 76, Fleet-street. 196 , * * C 26197 ... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "Vis yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly kails them from her shore > Hoards,... | |
| Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 pages
...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." THE END. LONDON: Printed bj James Swan, 76, Fleet-street. 198 c*, .' ... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pages
...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's Deserted Village. c2 obliged to submit to the terms of their directors, they began to think... | |
| 1826 - 300 pages
...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. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards... | |
| 1827 - 368 pages
...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." Vortex' is likely to find quite as many prototypes in London as iu India. Extravagance is always selfish... | |
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1827 - 364 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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