| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 páginas
...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,...And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards even beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains—this... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...pain ; And, even 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...around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a namo That leaves our useful product still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 páginas
...decay, 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. J*roud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting...around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 páginas
...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...around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 páginas
...e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid...around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes... | |
| 1821 - 284 páginas
...poverty, has now nearly brought this once happy country to ruin, in the following genuine colours — Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...around ; Yet count our gains — This wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride... | |
| 1821 - 284 páginas
...has now nearly brought this once happy country to ruin, in the following genuine colours — T'rourt swells the- tide with loads of freighted ore, And...wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world aronod ; Yet count our pains — Thin wealth is but a name, Tluit leaves our useful products Ktill... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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...how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a bappy land. F Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 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...around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 290 páginas
...Tis yours to judge how^ide the limits stand Between a sptendidwtfl a happy land. Proud swellsuRTtfile with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails...around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes... | |
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