 Though very poor, may still be very blest ; 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 the sky.  The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith - Сторінка 56автори: Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 129 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Herman Merivale - 1841 - 368 стор.
...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 стор.
...th' 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...sweeps the labour'd mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 стор.
...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...sweeps the labour*d mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE... | |
 | 1845 - 614 стор.
...the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the r mind ; They eat their meals, and lake their sport,...dearest friend a foe; They never importune his grac labored mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 стор.
...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...sweeps the labour'd mole away: While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have... | |
 | Brief considerations - 1846 - 64 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 532 стор.
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 стор.
...th' inclement clime; Aid, slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rounded with crowds, who showed him only one side...private interest in universal sympathy. He loved al An ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist... | |
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