 | 1792 - 112 pages
...decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits Hand Between a fplendid and a happy land. Proud fwells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting...hails them from her shore; Hoards , e'en beyond the mifer's wish , abound , And rich men flock from all the world around ; Yet count our gains : This wealth... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...truth, ye statesman who survey The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. GOLDSMITH. Deserted Village. TAKE physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou... | |
 | Art - 1813 - 682 pages
...happy land. Proud swells the tide with load i ot Ireighted ore, And SHOUTING FOLLY hiili them irom her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains ! This wealth is but д NAUI, That leaves our useful products still the same I"... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 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...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 - 1803 - 192 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...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. Kot... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1804 - 540 pages
...ha»e sorr.e " guineas again." "Sammy's idea wasrsactly the same as that of the farmer at Winchester. " Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, " And shouting folly hail» them to her shore'." How sadly poor Sammy and my Hamper; farmer will be disappointed It cao... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, JTis 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 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...ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore j Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count... | |
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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. 
