 | 1855 - 424 páginas
...pain ; And even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Yc 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 land. Proud swells the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1855 - 740 páginas
...remark that wo ought not to draw our notions of the state of the country from scenes such as these. 4 Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor decay, TiB youra to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. ' " Where,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 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... | |
 | 1926 - 780 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 an happy land. Proud swells the... | |
 | 1886 - 372 páginas
...the murderers of those who die every day for want of it." — Pope Greyoiy the Great (St. Gregory.) 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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 páginas
...very position of world leadership. As so aptly phrased in Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: "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." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES.... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 páginas
...Oliver Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village' will suffice to bring out the terms of comparison and contrast: 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 happy land. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...d' with 'freaks.' The Poet now proceeds to the causes which produced the desertion of his village: 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 undoubtedly... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 páginas
...significant that the passage contains the only use of the first person possessive plural in the poem: 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 an 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. 
