 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.  The Popular Educator - Page 6841855Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1829 - 554 pages
...Goldsmith's theory which is so beautifully and pathetically expressed in the Deserted Village — "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," &c. Mr. Southey... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...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 yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand i2 Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, i2 ' Too much commerce may injure a nation as well as too little ; and there is a wide difference between... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Education - 1839 - 228 pages
...felicity were two inseparable matters." — Marquise de Chasteleiix on Public Happiness, vol. ip 41. " 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." of their directors,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...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 yours to judge, how wide the limits stand J- Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...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 yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...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 yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
 | lady Anne Hamilton - 1840 - 206 pages
...means are required, or how can suitable assistance be rendered, either as preventive or remedy ? " 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." GOLDSMITH. Another... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...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 yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells... | |
 | William Leggett - Political science - 1840 - 344 pages
...special privileges and immunities ^are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet b© sadly admonished " how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
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