 | Herman Merivale - 1841 - 368 pages
...practical doctrines which his beautiful verses have sometimes been dragged in to illustrate : — " Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-supported power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." And these views are so... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...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 HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE, T» LORD CLARE. THANKS, myLord, for your Ven'son ; for finer... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very blessed; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer... | |
 | 1845 - 614 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 swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength point rt, Though very poor, may still be veiy blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour' il mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 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 labor'd mole away — . 428 While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 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 nowadays (said he) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | 1846 - 532 pages
...tremendous proof, 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... | |
 | Brief considerations - 1846 - 64 pages
...mechanical arts accompanies its decline. All history moreover confirms the assertion of the poet, " That Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away, Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, An nkind; for fortune prevented him from knowing that...Physicians tell us of a disorder, in which the wh THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN ROW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. Say, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary 'oeauty,... | |
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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... 
