 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 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... | |
 | England - 1850 - 938 pages
...opens with these admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt : — " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey 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." What follows will... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 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. 't Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...into pain; And, even 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, Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 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, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud. Proud swells the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...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 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 - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...into 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 your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. J*roud swells... | |
 | Jews - 1821 - 284 pages
...and cumbrous pomp repose ; And ev'ry want to luxury ally'd, And ev'ry pang that folly pays to pride. 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 a happy land. He then describes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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 bappy land. F Proud swells... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 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, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
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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. 
