 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 554 ページ
...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," &c. Mr. Southey avers further, that the point of emulation between rival manufacturers, is not so much... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 578 ページ
...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."—Desertetl Village.] thought a prodigy of parsimony and prudence; though his conversation be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 ページ
...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...men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gams. This wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful products still the same. Not so the loss. The... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 ページ
...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." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES. UNITED STATES. I960, 1965, AND 1966 « '• • « •» Ifcl, 44ilngl. .'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 ページ
...couplets confidently assume the character of a public address. The 'friends to truth' are boldly invited 'to judge how wide the limits stand / Between a splendid and a happy land', though they are not left much leeway. Hill refuses to prescribe where his own responses are complex.... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 ページ
...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. . . Goldsmith undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 ページ
...swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound. And rich men flock...gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. (265-274). Primitivist poetry is, in a sense, a badge of respectability because... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 ページ
...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted...shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound. And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
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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. 
