 | Brief considerations - 1846 - 64 oldal
...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 sky." Let us not, then, build our hopes on so insecure a foundation, nor imagine that whatever the result... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 oldal
...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 sky. MARINER'S DREAM.— Dimond. IN slumbers of midnight the sailor boy lay, His hammock swung loose at... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 oldal
...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-sdays," said he, " got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 oldal
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 oldal
...blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole awav ; 25 While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Goldsmith. EXERCISE XHI. The Journey of a Day ; a Picture of Human life. OBIDAH, the son of Abensina,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 oldal
...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...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.* * [" Dr. Johnson favored me by marking the lines which he furnished toGoldsnith's ' Deserted Village,'... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 oldal
...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 sky. BRUCE. FROM " AN ELEGY." Now Spring returns ; bul not to me returns The vernal joy my better years... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 oldal
...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 sky. HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 oldal
...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 sky. HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer or... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 oldal
...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 sky. 430 EXAMINATION ON " THE DESERTED VILLAGE." 1. What is the prominent characteristic of Goldsmith's... | |
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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... 
