 | 1800 - 322 oldal
...very blest j E- 3 . . 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. FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN Winter... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 oldal
...Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EP1STLK. TO LORD CLARE. FIRST PRINTED IN 1765. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 oldal
...still be very bless'd ; 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 HERMIT; A POEM. BY T. PARNELL, DD WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY GOLDSMITH. THE LIFE... | |
 | 1806 - 330 oldal
...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. ' 101 FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 oldal
...; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' 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 aelf-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist Uiu billows and the sky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON;... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 oldal
...may yet 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." May 21, 1(07. ART. XV. The Ruminator. Containing a series of moral and sentimental Essays. IP. IX.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 oldal
...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 the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-daya, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 oldal
...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 the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 oldal
...Goldsmith, assures us, ' That trade's proud empire hastes to swift dec»y, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows of the sky.' Who is so insensible to the charms of fiction, as in this passage to lament the absence... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 oldal
...that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's prond empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. " nnURN, gentle Heraiit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper cheers... | |
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... 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... 
