| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...th* inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn tlie rage of gain; Teach him. that states of native strength...sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE,... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...Redress the rigors of th' inclement clime; And slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain: Teach him that states of native strength ppsse.st,. Though very poor, may still be very blest j E- 3 . . That trade's proud empire hastes to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted Truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states...decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...Goldsmith, assures us, ' That trade's proud empire hastes Vo swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labourM mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows of the sky.' Who is so insensible to the charms of fiction, as in this passage to lament the absence... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain j Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...Rodress the rigors of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...Redress the rigors of th' inclement clime ; And slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him that states of native strength possesf, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, "...defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, "...defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-daya, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
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