| 1809 - 402 pages
...pain ; And, ev'u while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this he joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "li- yonr's to judge bow wide the limits stuuJ Between a splendid and a happy land. Fraud swell* the... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...pain ; And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arms decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be 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. Proud swells the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...pain ; And, ev'n, while 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, the poor's decay, 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...pain: And, ev'n while fashien's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? TS, Jhe poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...pain ; And, ev'n while fashion's brightest charms decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be 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. Proud swells the... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1811 - 844 pages
...greater bulk of laws passed during the sway of Mr. Pitt and his successors of the same school, than u as passed from the origin of Parliaments in England to...statesmen who survey " The rich man's joys increase, Uie poor's decay," It is yours to judge by other signs than these; it is yours to judge by those effects... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 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 man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, 'Tisyour's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 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 man's joys increase, the poor's decay, ?Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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 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. Proud swells the... | |
| English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...pain ; And, ev'n while 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, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
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