 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.  The Quarterly review - Page 4631835Full view - About this book
 | Hippolyte Philibert Passy - 1848 - 292 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 happy land. The man of wealth and pride Takes up the space that many poor supplied ; Space Tor his lake, his park's... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.* Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 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 happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them -from the shore ;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 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 happy land." What follows will not easily bear a wise interpretation. Goldsmith speaks of commerce as if ships came... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 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 happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
 | American literature - 1850 - 604 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 happy land." What follows will not easily bear a wise interpretation. Goldsmith speaks of commerce as if ships came... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 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 happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...truth, ye statesmen, who surrey 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 tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 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 happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards... | |
 | 1852 - 300 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 happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from the shore ; Hoards,... | |
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