| 1800 - 322 lehte
...him that states of native strength ppsse.st,. Though very poor, may still be very blest j E- 3 . . That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN Winter... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 lehte
...spurn tlie 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 HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 lehte
...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...decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 lehte
...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 POEM. BY T. PARNELL, DD WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY GOLDSMITH. THE LIFE... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1807 - 788 lehte
...Goldsmith, assures us, ' That trade's proud empire hastes Vo swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labourM mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows of the sky.' Who is so insensible to the charms of fiction, as in this passage to lament the absence... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 lehte
...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 HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE... | |
| 1806 - 330 lehte
...spurn the rage of gain : Teach him that states of native strength possesf, 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. ' 101 FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 lehte
...spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While aelf-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist Uiu billows and the sky.... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 514 lehte
...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, "...defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-daya, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 lehte
...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, "...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... | |
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