 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...her shore ; Hoards, e'en beyond the miser's wish, ahound ; And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains : this wealth is but a name... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them -from the shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1851 - 376 pages
...there is a wide difference between a conquering and a flourishing empire.' Cit. of the World, i. 98. And shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards...gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful product still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride "Takes up a space that many poor... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...the poor's decay, Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...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 :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...poor's decay — 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...poor's decay — 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, even beyond the muter's all we build to Ambition Î Ah no 1 Affrighted, he shrinketh gaine. This wealth is but a name, That leaves our useful product still the same. Not »о the loss.... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 612 pages
...popular notion that a country is much enriched by additions to its stock of the precious metals. " Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails it from her shore." The riches of a community depend on the amount of the mass of commodities which... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...the poor's decay, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore,...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore ; 270 Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet... | |
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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. Proud swells... 
