 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 páginas
...pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 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. Proud swells the... | |
 | 1850 - 938 páginas
...opens with these admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt : — " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis yours to jndge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." What follows will... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 páginas
...pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? 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. 't Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 páginas
...into pain; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this he joy? 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. Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 páginas
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud. Proud swells the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy i 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. Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 páginas
...into pain: And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? Ye friends to 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 an happy land. J*roud swells... | |
 | 1821 - 284 páginas
...and cumbrous pomp repose ; And ev'ry want to luxury ally'd, And ev'ry pang that folly pays to pride. Ye friends to 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. He then describes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 páginas
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 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 bappy land. F Proud swells... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 páginas
...pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
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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. 
