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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. "
Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices - Page 81
by Robert Southey - 1807
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arta decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 7 % % % % %@ 'Tig yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...p .in : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this he joy? Swp ) oI n s w ta S N? X N rg Sda-= v 7 xY3 EE1u %[O Uθq < / m N\ 'Tie yours to jmlg<% how wide the limits stand Between a spk'iKlid and a happy hind. Proud swells the...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks, if this be joy. Ye friends to trnth, 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. Proud swells the tide...
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The Working Man's Manual: A New Theory of Political Economy, on the ...

Stephen Simpson - Banks and banking - 1831 - 280 pages
...pathos and argument—feeling and reason—so felicitously blended, as to afford unmixed delight. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey— The...freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from the shore; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around....
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Pauperism and Crime

William Logan Fisher - Crime - 1831 - 132 pages
...the end. presents, and an extension of territory. But, alas! they are without foreign commerce!* " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey, The...wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land."f Having traced, as I conceive, pauperism to its true sources, and enforced my theory by a few...
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Poems, Chiefly Satirical...

Adam Burt - 1833 - 160 pages
...revealed THE MECHANIC, om, PROGRESS OF THE ARTS, &c, PART SECOND. THE OPERATIVE ARTISAN. " Yi friends of truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay — 'Tis your'a to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Qoldimitk OP kings,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 53

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1835 - 614 pages
...this system of stall-fed charity, and what truth there is in those lines which pathetically declare ' How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. We have stated that in viewing with considerable attention some hundred workhouses, we found aged people...
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The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 784 pages
...country ought to sanction a system, which bolsters up rents by impoverishing the rest of the community ! Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey, The rich man's joys encrease, the poor's decay, "fis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...into 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...And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains....
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of ...

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 582 pages
...Extended empire, like expanded gold, Exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour." — Irene.'] (») [ " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land."— Dasrtnl VUlcg*.} thought a prodigy of parsimony and prudence; though his conversation be replete with...
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