 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagine
...into pain ; And even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy ? y ba the poor's decav, Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud.... | |
 | 1867 - 796 pagine
...lines of one of the most highlygifted poets of the last century rise spontaneously to the mind : '^e friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, tho poor's decay, Tis yours to jadgo how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pagine
...pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 'i 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.... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pagine
...pain; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy ? the poor's decay, Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand H-twi en a splen Jid and a happy land.... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pagine
...them not seek to learn it. Enough ! " When ignorance is bliss," 'Tis folly to be wise." CHAPTER XXIII. 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.... | |
 | Hippolyte Philibert Passy - 1848 - 292 pagine
...NOTES AND APPENDIX BY THE TRANSLATOR. Latifundia perdtdere Itnliam, et jam vero provincial. — PLINY 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.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pagine
...pain ; 35 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, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand 40 Between a splendid and a happy... | |
 | 1850 - 604 pagine
...science, opens with these admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt: " 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."... | |
 | 1850 - 806 pagine
...with these admirable lines, which every one, in 298 209 a sense of hie own, will readily adopt : — " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, Tie youm to jndge how wide the limits stand Between я splendid and a happy land."... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - 608 pagine
...science, opens with these admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt : " olmes 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. 
