 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 Poetical Works - Page 35by Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 118 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...special privileges and immunities are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet be aadly admonished ' how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.' But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 350 pages
...special privileges and immunities are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet be sadly admonished how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative 12* of either foregoing for the future such... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 344 pages
...special privileges and immunities ^are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet b© sadly admonished " how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...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...freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from he shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
 | Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 358 pages
...light. Amusements of the Acadians. THE NEUTRAL FRENCH, otf, THE EXILES OF NOVA SCOTIA. CHAPTER 1. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." IT was on the evening of the first of September, 1755, that a family, inhabiting an old fashioned,... | |
 | Catherine Read Williams - 1841 - 360 pages
...to light. Amusements of the Acadians. THE NEUTRAL FRENCH, OR, THE EXILES OF NOVASCOTIA. CHAPTER I. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide i.he limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." IT was on the evening of the first of September,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 't Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells... | |
 | 1841 - 496 pages
...criminals—but must feel sensibly, in spite of all her refinements of art, and luxury, and knowledge— " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land !" The author proceeds to describe the nature and constitution of the Inns of Court, and the judicial... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...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...shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet, count our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...friends to truth , yc. statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase , the poor's decay, T is your's to judge , how wide the limits stand Between a splendid...And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men tlock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
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