 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pagine
...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.... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pagine
...pain : And. even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 1 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 Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pagine
...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 year's to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 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, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1855 - 740 pagine
...remark that wo ought not to draw our notions of the state of the country from scenes such as these. 4 Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor decay, TiB youra to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. '... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 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, 'T is yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pagine
...pain ; And even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Yc friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tie yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.... | |
 | 1856 - 602 pagine
...always more correct than his prose. At p. 235, Goldsmith's well-known lines are thus printed : — " Ye friends to truth ; ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, This yours to judge, — how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pagine
...WEALTH CROWDS OUT POVERTY ; SHOW, USE ; A FEW, THE MANY. —THE RICH BECOME RICHER, THE POOR POOSKB. y the poor's decay, 'T is 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. 
