 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.  Democrat - Сторінка 1161886Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 стор.
...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 стор.
...spheres." 3- "%nd now when busy crowds retire e " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey Thu rich man's joys Increase, the poor's decay, "Tis yours...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Q. What is this last species called ? A. Heroic measure, and is the most common species of verse in... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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...Between a splendid and a happy land. . . Goldsmith undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his acquaintance... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 стор.
...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... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 стор.
...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... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 стор.
...into 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...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - 2005 - 232 стор.
...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and happy land . . . Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;... | |
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