 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1850 - Страниц: 608
...science, opens with these admirable lines, which every one, in a sense of his own, will readily adopt : " olmes What follows will not easily bear a wise interpretation. Goldsmith speaks of commerce as if ships came... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - Страниц: 442
...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...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them -from the shore ;... | |
 | 1886 - Страниц: 372
...the murderers of those who die every day for want of it." — Pope Greyoiy the Great (St. Gregory.) Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. — Goldsmith. The oppononts of reform are tho p.irents of revolution. It is tho continuous increase... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - Страниц: 902
...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...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES. UNITED STATES. I960, 1965, AND 1966 « '• • « •» Ifcl, 44ilngl. .'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - Страниц: 248
...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...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and happy land. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - Страниц: 420
...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...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. . . Goldsmith undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - Страниц: 318
...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...judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. And shouting Folly hails them from... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - Страниц: 968
...at any rate, will be bright and great enough for them, so they think. Were you to ask one of them ' how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land,' he might reply, ' As wide as the breadth of the Tasman Sea.' The same insular, self-contained temper... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - Страниц: 512
...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...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting Folly hails them from her shore; Hoards... | |
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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. 
