 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 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 ocean sweeps the labor'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.*... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1851 - 582 pages
...be dictated by a sentiment analogous to that which is conveyed in four of Goldsmith's lines: — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent states can time defy. As rocks resist the billows and the sty." The principal public festivals of China... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 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 laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indians of North America - 1851 - 794 pages
...for its prosperous manufactories, but which has long since verified the predictions of the bard— " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away." Its location is on one of the beautiful and sparkling affluents of the Towasentha... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 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 laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...Teach him that states, of native strength possessed, 425 Though very poor, may 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.... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...by his sinc.-iL' 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." — BOSWBLL. RETALIATION. Page 55—60. First published on the 18th of April, 1774, a fortnight after... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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 ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away, While self-dopendent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE GRAVE. 'IT7HILST some... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...Bothnia. Famlxunarca is a mountain near Quito. * "Dr. Johnson favoured me, at the same time, by marjung the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's ' Deserted Village,' which are only the last four." — BOSWELI, by CBOEEU, p. 174. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE T" LORD CLAR K. 1771. 'The... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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 laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
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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... 
