 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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.... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Education - 1839 - 228 pages
...felicity were two inseparable matters." — Marquise de Chasteleiix on Public Happiness, vol. ip 41. " 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."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 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.... | |
 | lady Anne Hamilton - 1840 - 206 pages
...means are required, or how can suitable assistance be rendered, either as preventive or remedy ? " 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... | |
 | Catherine Read Williams - Acadia - 1841 - 358 pages
...light. Amusements of the Acadians. THE NEUTRAL FRENCH, otf, THE EXILES OF NOVA SCOTIA. CHAPTER 1. " 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."... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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.... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land."... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " 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."... | |
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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. 
