 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1888 - 252 pages
...possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." 1 What Goldsmith was paid for " The Deserted Village " is uncertain. Glover says it was a hundred guineas,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 454 pages
..." Deserted Village," which are only the last four : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While...now-a-days," said he, " got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
..." Deserted Village," which are only the last four : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While...now-a-days," said he, " got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1892 - 100 pages
...strength possesst, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While...power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and tlie sky. ADVERTISEMENTS. WENTWOETH'S AEITHMETICS, Adopted for exclusive use in the State of Washington,... | |
 | Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...strength possess'd Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; While...can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the skv. SWITZERLAND AND FRANCE. (FROM "THE TRAVELLER.") Turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, Irish - 1899 - 296 pages
...possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." l What Goldsmith was paid for "The Deserted Village " is uncertain. Glover says it was a hundred guineas,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
..." Deserted Village," which are only the last four : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift surprised to find Jack Wilkes there." JOHNSON : "...Sir? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pages
...Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the four last : " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away : While...and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that everything should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...: 1766] DEISTS 337 ' That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour" d mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy,...and the sky.' Talking of education, ' People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1906 - 362 pages
...possees'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; 426 That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 430 LYKICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND... | |
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That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away: While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 
