 | 1850 - 938 頁
...opens with these admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt : — " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis yours to jndge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." What follows will not easily... | |
 | 1828 - 956 頁
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 頁
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy i Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 頁
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud. Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 頁
...into pain: And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. J*roud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 頁
...e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 'Tis your's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid...shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 頁
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a bappy land. F Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
 | 1821 - 558 頁
...The country blooms : a garden and a yravc." ' Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey •'NThe rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay ; " 'Tis...limits stand " Between a splendid and a happy land." If our state be not here truly described, never was description true. Dr. GOLDSMITH, if he used a little... | |
 | 1821 - 284 頁
...and cumbrous pomp repose ; And ev'ry want to luxury ally'd, And ev'ry pang that folly pays to pride. Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay — 'Tis your's to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. He then describes that... | |
 | 1821 - 284 頁
...has now nearly brought this once happy country to ruin, in the following genuine colours — T'rourt swells the- tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world aronod ; Yet count our pains... | |
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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. 
