 | Great Britain - 1821 - 558 pages
...ye statesmen who survey •'NThe 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." If our state be not here truly described, never was description true. Dr. GOLDSMITH, if he used a little... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 pages
...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...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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...Tis yours to judge how^ide the limits stand Between a sptendidwtfl a happy land. Proud swellsuRTtfile with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand lietwcen a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide...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.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "I is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a...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.... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1824 - 534 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joy increase, the poor's decay ; 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a...ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore — Yet count our gains — this wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same."... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an the wo :/ even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 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 - English poetry - 1825 - 160 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...hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miscr'a wish abountJ, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth... | |
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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. 
