| 1828 - 962 Seiten
...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tig yours to judge, Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same. Not... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...trnth, 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...shouting Folly hails them from her shore : Hoards ev'n beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| Stephen Simpson - 1831 - 280 Seiten
...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...freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from the shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
| Adam Burt - 1833 - 160 Seiten
...truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay — 'Tis your'a to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Qoldimitk OP kings, and those denominated great, Peers, Princes, Heroes, Ministers of State, Let laurell'd... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 Seiten
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Bet-ween a splendid and...shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
| 1836 - 784 Seiten
...truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, "fis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Kingdoms at length, to sickly greatness grown, Boast of a florid vigour, not their own ; At every draught... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 Seiten
...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...abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same. Not... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 574 Seiten
...truth, ye statesmen who surrey The rich man's Joy« Increaie, the poor's decay 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land."— Detrrtal thought a prodigy of parsimony and prudence; though his conversation be replete with the most... | |
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