 Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world 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 up a space that...  Land: Its Attractions and Riches - Page 85edited by - 1892 - 910 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That...robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...her shore ; Hoards ev'n beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That...silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half thei; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, [growth Indignant spurns the cottage from the green;... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but а лоте That leaves our useful products still the same. Not...horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps hi» limbs in silken cloth, Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their His seat, where solitary... | |
 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1824 - 534 pages
...Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore — Yet count our gains — this wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same." Let us, to complete the picture, view the stability of this great commercial discovery. Look to the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. :/ product still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride, Takes up a space that many poor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name, That...that wraps his limbs in silken sloth, Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...ad the world around : Yet count our gains : this wealth is but a name That leaved our useful product still the same. Not so the loss : the man of wealth...that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd 'the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports are seen,., .Indignant spurns... | |
 | Ronald M'Chronicle (pseud.) - 1825 - 804 pages
...neither mad, nor a fool, nor in love ;" and with a slow step he walked into the inn. CHAP.' CHAPTER V. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that...bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds. Deserted Village. The Arrivals. STURFORD Abbey was as unlike an abbey, according to the old monkish... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That limit's our useful produets still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth...supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bound?, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rieh men floek from all the world around. Yet eount y be ? Do they above love to be lov'd, and yet Those lovers produet still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pode Takes up a spaee that many poor... | |
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