 | John Francis Davis - China - 1836 - 420 pages
...be dictated by a sentiment analogous to that which is conveyed in four of Goldsmith's lines : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent states can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...gain ; Teach him that states, of native strength posscst, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. FROM THE TRAVELLER. EV'N now, where Alpine... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. (l-> (1) [ " Dr. Johnson favoured me by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's ' Deserted Village,' which arc only the four last." — BOSWXLL, vol. ii. p. 309, edit. 1835.] THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. POETICAL... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 604 pages
...it over while preparing for the press, conceived they furnished a more appropriate termination— " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole awav : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." See Boswell,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...native strength posscst, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire liastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. PROM THE TRAVELLER. EV'N now, where Alpine... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors, English - 1837 - 600 pages
...it over while preparing for the press, conceived they furnished a more appropriate termination — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labourM mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky."... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...dictated - by a sentiment analogous to that which i* conveyed in four of Goldsmith's lines : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decayť...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent states can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." The principal public festivals of China... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Teach him that states. .of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependant pow'r can Time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709-1784.... | |
 | Herman Merivale - Colonies - 1841 - 368 pages
...practical doctrines which his beautiful verses have sometimes been dragged in to illustrate : — " Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-supported power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." And these views are so... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...gain ; Teach him that states, of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour' d mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
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Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain : Teach him, that states of native strength... 
