 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 pages
...Goldsmith, by his sincere friend and admirer, JOSHUA REYNOLDS." Page 52, line 17. — "Dr. Johnson favored me * * by marking the lines which he furnished to...Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." — BOSWELL. RETALIATION. Page 55—60. First published on the 18th of April, 1774, a fortnight after... | |
 | True Worthy Hoit - 1860 - 52 pages
...element of illuminating soul, or they will fall, a lifeless mass, into chaotic ruin. Let us remember "That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away ; Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength posses t, 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 defy, As rocks resist the billows and the say.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 23 23 " Dr. Johnson favoured me at the same time by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." Bos well, by Croker, p. 174.— PC EDWIN AND ANGELINA. (THE HERMIT.) A BALLAD. " Written 1764, and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...Teach him, that States, of native strength possess' d, Though very poor, may still be very blcss'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | 1865 - 342 pages
...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.28 23 " Dr. Johnson favoured me at the siitne time by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." Boswell, by Croker, p. 174. — PO EDWIN AND ANGELINA. (THE HERMIT.) A BALLAD. " Written 1764, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - 1865 - 410 pages
...; 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 labour' d mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...Teach him, 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 labored mole away ; "While self-dependent power can time defy. As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1866 - 402 pages
...stars in their constellations. The poet was guided by a one-sided view of the question when he said 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... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1867 - 736 pages
...Nineveh, of Carthage, of Venice, of Genoa, and many commercial governments of central Europe, warned them "That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole nway." In England agriculture has long been regarded as the most favorable occupation... | |
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Redress the rigours of the 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... 
