 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 - 1842 - 446 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,... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village. ing the greater part of its revenue pledged to pay the interest of an overwhelming... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village. ing the greater part of its revenue pledged to pay the interest of an overwhelming... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...statesmen who survey The rich man's jovs increase, the poor's decay, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Tis yours to judge pۃ$ Xۃ$ Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...truth, ye statesmen, who survey Thu 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." Q. What is this last species called ? A. Heroic measure, and is the most common species of verse in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 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. NEARLY a year has elapsed since we left the poor family of Wilmot. It had been a long and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey rtThe 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 ; Yet... | |
 | Home and colonial school society - 1849 - 448 pages
...become, a rich and powerful nation. Meanwhile, there may be some danger of our forgetting,— — — " ' how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.'* " It may be that the education best calculated to increase wealth is not necessarily that which will... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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... | |
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