 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 pagine
...very position of world leadership. As so aptly phrased in Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village: "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."... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 pagine
...Oliver Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village' will suffice to bring out the terms of comparison and contrast: 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 happy land. Yet... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pagine
...d' with 'freaks.' The Poet now proceeds to the causes which produced the desertion of his village: 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.... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 pagine
...significant that the passage contains the only use of the first person possessive plural in the poem: 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 an happy land... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - 2005 - 232 pagine
...scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied. 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 happy land .... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagine
...into pain; And, even 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.... | |
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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. 
