 | 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...Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, Ami shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from 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 leaves our useful product still the same. Not so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 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, Tisyours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...trnth, ye statesmen who snrvey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yonrs to jndge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Prond swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shonting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1811 - 840 pages
...than was passed from the origin of Parliaments in England to the Reign of George the Third ; but, " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey " The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay," It is yours to judge by other signs than these ; it is yours to judge by those effects which regard... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1811 - 844 pages
...than u as passed from the origin of Parliaments in England to the Reign of George the Third ; but, " Ye friends to truth, ye 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...freighted , ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich me.n flock from all the world around.... | |
 | 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...freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
 | 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...freighted ore. And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards ev'n beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
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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. 
