| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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... | |
| Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 páginas
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village.... | |
| Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 páginas
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " 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." Deserted Village.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...into pain ; And even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy ? y ba decav, Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud. Proud swells... | |
| 1867 - 796 páginas
...lines of one of the most highlygifted poets of the last century rise spontaneously to the mind : '^e friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, tho poor's decay, Tis yours to jadgo how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
| 1845 - 614 páginas
...pain; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand H-twi en a splen Jid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 páginas
...pain : And e'en 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... | |
| Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 páginas
...them not seek to learn it. Enough ! " When ignorance is bliss," 'Tis folly to be wise." CHAPTER XXIII. 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. GOLDSMITH. NEARLY... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...e'en while fashion's brightest arts deooy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye frieads 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... | |
| Hippolyte Philibert Passy - 1848 - 292 páginas
...Just Published, 12mo., cloth lettered, Price 5s. 6d., ARISTOCRACY; CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATIONS WITH « Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the pool's decay ; 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud."... | |
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