 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 sky.  The life of Oliver Goldsmith - Page 274by sir James Prior - 1837Full view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...him that states of native strength ppsse.st,. Though very poor, may still be very blest j E- 3 . . That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...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 pages
...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 pages
...Teach him, that states of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...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... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1807 - 788 pages
...Goldsmith, assures us, ' That trade's proud empire hastes Vo swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labourM 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...gain : Teach him that states of native strength possesf, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...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, "...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...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, "...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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 904 pages
...of gain; Teach him that states, of native strength possest, Tho* very poor, may yet be very blest; That Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...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.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 pages
...written by a greater than 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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. [PARNELL.] FAK in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend Hermit grew... | |
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