 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime; Aid, slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring for seemingly causeless famine. Nature, which shows herself posmt, Though very poor, may still bo very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states...; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, A§ oceans sweep the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 422 pages
...dictated - by a sentiment analogous to that which i* conveyed in four of Goldsmith's lines : — " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay»...sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent states can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." The principal public festivals of China... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...Teach him that states. .of native strength 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 self-dependant pow'r can Time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709-1784.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...Redress the rigours of th' inclement clime ; Aid slighted Truth with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him that states, of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted Truth with thy persuasive strain , Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him that states,...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... | |
 | Herman Merivale - Colonies - 1841 - 368 pages
...practical doctrines which his beautiful verses have sometimes been dragged in to illustrate : — " Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-supported power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." And these views are so... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...the rigours of t If inclement clime ; Aid, slighted truth, with thy persuasive strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength posses), Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...Redress the rigours of the inclement clime ; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,... | |
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Redress the rigours of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain ; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength... 
