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
| William Leggett - 1840 - 348 pages
...special privileges and immunities are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet be sadly admonished how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative 12* of either foregoing for the future such... | |
| 1840 - 582 pages
...special privileges and immunities are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet be aadly admonished ' how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.' But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
| William Leggett - 1840 - 344 pages
...special privileges and immunities ^are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet b© sadly admonished " how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
| lady Anne Hamilton - 1840 - 206 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. Another barbarous custom is, the injunction imposed upon royal succession, that they shall... | |
| 1840 - 378 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loada of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails thorn from her shore; Hoards... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 he shore ; Hoards... | |
| Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 358 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." IT was on the evening of the first of September, 1755, that a family, inhabiting an old fashioned,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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,... | |
| 1841 - 496 pages
...criminals—but must feel sensibly, in spite of all her refinements of art, and luxury, and knowledge— " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land !" The author proceeds to describe the nature and constitution of the Inns of Court, and the judicial... | |
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