| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 Seiten
...Teach him that states, of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away ; 25 While self-dependent power can time defy, As reeks resist the billows and the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 Seiten
...over time, Kedrcss the rigors of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach...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.*... | |
| 1826 - 812 Seiten
...of ground maintained its man;" which is as glaring a falsehood as ever was put upon paper: but < " that states, of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ;" and also in the dedication of this poem that he sincerely believed all he had written. That is,... | |
| Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 Seiten
...Johnson read the poem along some such lines. For here is Johnson's conclusion to The Deserted Village: That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. (lines 427-30) Since Johnson's... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...strain Teach erring man to spum the rage of gain; Teach him that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's...empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...over time, 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 possest; Tho'very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps... | |
| Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 Seiten
...Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud...to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole' 2 away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 250 30.... | |
| Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 662 Seiten
...Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud...hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole32 away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 250... | |
| Chaim David Mazoff - 1998 - 192 Seiten
...incompatible3 but it is also the function of poetry, the "first to fly where sensual joys invade" (408), to Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean... | |
| Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 Seiten
...Journey might be the concluding lines that Johnson had furnished for Goldsmith's Deserted Village (1770): That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.67... | |
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