 | 1809 - 402 pages
...decay, "li- yonr's to judge bow wide the limits stuuJ Between a splendid and a happy land. Fraud swell* the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, ev'n beyond the miner's wish, abound, And rich men flork from all the world around j Yit count uur... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who surrey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis yours to jndge* how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Prond swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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...Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, Ami shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...trnth, ye statesmen who snrvey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yonrs to jndge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Prond swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shonting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...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...shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards ev'n beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 300 pages
...freighted ore, And fhouting folly hails them from her fhore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the mifer's with, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around...gains ; this wealth is but a name That leaves our ufeful product ftill the fame. Not fo the lofs : the man of wealth and pride Takes up a fpace that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...he 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...Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shooting Folly hnils them from her shore ; Hoards, fven beyond the miser's wish, abonml, And rich men... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...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 a happy land. 't Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore... | |
 | England - 1828 - 956 pages
...contemplate their effects on that important part of the community, the labouring class, without perceiving " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land : " and without wishing that the other course had been pursued, even though we had been somewhat less... | |
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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. 
