| British poets - 1822 - 296 pagine
...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.... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pagine
...pain ; And, ev'n 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 lietwcen a splendid and a happy land.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagine
...; And, civil wlTÎïe fashion's brightest ertsr decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this he joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "I is yours to judge, how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...pain ; And, even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy? litt( the poor's decay, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land.... | |
| Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 pagine
...lived to the present period, would have seen them realized to an extent he could not contemplate. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay ; "I'is yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land."... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagine
...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 man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagine
...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, "Vis yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
| Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 pagine
...lived to the present period, would have seen them realized to an extent he could not contemplate. " 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."... | |
| 1826 - 300 pagine
...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.... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 pagine
...general felicity were two inseparable matters." — Chatelur on Public Happiness, vol. i. p. 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."... | |
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