| 1814 - 310 páginas
...Teach him, that states, of native strength possess 'd, Though 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 self-dependent power can time defv, As rocks resist the iiillows and the... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, 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, A» rocks resist the billows and the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 páginas
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, 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 pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
| W. Plees - 1817 - 410 páginas
...consequences are the same to both. The lust of power, and the lust of gain, are equally fatal to happiness.* " "While self-dependent power can time defy, " As rocks resist the billows, and the sky." , GOLDSMITH. MINERALOGY. • I • • : .. • i Though some accounts of Jersey have been published,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 páginas
...gain ; Teach him that states, of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still he 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 466 páginas
...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 ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : " While self-dependent power can time defy, " As rocks resist the billows and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 páginas
...gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest. 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 pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 páginas
...gain; Teach him, iha! states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. HERMIT. a 33allatf. riRST... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 páginas
...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 HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 páginas
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, 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... | |
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