 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 sider
...that true and exquisite poet, who exclaimed, — " flow wide the limits stand, Between a splendid ami a happy land ! Proud swells the tide with loads of...ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Yet count our gains, this wealth is but a nuinc. That leaves our useful products still the same." U... | |
 | Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 sider
...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." THE END. LONDON: Printed bj James Swan, 76, Fleet-street. 198 c*, .' ... | |
 | Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 sider
...friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay ; "I'is yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." THE END. 1OXDON: Printed by James Swan, 76, Fleet-street. 196 , * * C 26197 ... | |
 | 1826 - 300 sider
...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...gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 sider
...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." Goldsmith's Deserted Village. c2 obliged to submit to the terms of their directors, they began to think... | |
 | 1827 - 368 sider
...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." Vortex' is likely to find quite as many prototypes in London as iu India. Extravagance is always selfish... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1827 - 364 sider
...friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man'» joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Vortex is likely to find quite as many prototypes in London as in India. Extravagance is always selfish... | |
 | 1827 - 532 sider
...economy, are applicable to the wise and beuevoleut statesmen of all times — Tis theirs to judpe, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. On the Modern Ornaments of Architecture, Sfc. IN no age since the Augustan era of Rome, perhaps, has... | |
 | 1828 - 962 sider
...contemplate their effects on that important part of the community, the labouring class, without perceiving " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land ;" and without wishing that the other course had been pursued, even though we had been somewhat less... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 sider
...friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tig yours products still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor... | |
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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. 
