 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...proud empire hastes to swift dei •cay* As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While self dependent power can time defy. As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE TRAVELLER, OK A PROSPECT OF SOCIETY j A. POEM. PRINTEB IN 1765. TO THE REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH. DEAR... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pages
...spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. SAY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. Say, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four : " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...time defy, As rocks resist, the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now-a-days, (said he), got a strange opinion that every thing 'should... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...spurn the rage of gain; Teach him that states, of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to...sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self-dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT A BALLAD. « TURN, gentle... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...gain; 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...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. a UallaD. FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR, 1765. TO of the <£t. SIR, JUNE, 1767. As there is... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes lo swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away;...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. A BALLAD. (nttST HUNTED IN THE VICAR or WAEE»IELD, 1765.) THE fOLLOWING LETTER, ADDRESSED... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 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 dependent power can time defy, And i-ocks resist the billows and the sky. Von widow'd, solitary... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...ing the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four : " 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... | |
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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... 
