 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 páginas
...pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 't Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells... | |
 | 1841 - 496 páginas
...criminals—but must feel sensibly, in spite of all her refinements of art, and luxury, and knowledge— " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land !" The author proceeds to describe the nature and constitution of the Inns of Court, and the judicial... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 páginas
...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...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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 páginas
...very position of world leadership. As so aptly phrased in Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: "Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES. UNITED STATES. I960, 1965, AND 1966 « '• • « •» Ifcl, 44ilngl. .'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 páginas
...Oliver Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village' will suffice to bring out the terms of comparison and contrast: Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and happy land. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...d' with 'freaks.' The Poet now proceeds to the causes which produced the desertion of his village: Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. . . Goldsmith undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 páginas
...significant that the passage contains the only use of the first person possessive plural in the poem: Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 páginas
...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of 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.... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 páginas
...at any rate, will be bright and great enough for them, so they think. Were you to ask one of them ' how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land,' he might reply, ' As wide as the breadth of the Tasman Sea.' The same insular, self-contained temper... | |
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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. 
