 | 1800 - 322 pages
...ppsse.st,. Though very poor, may still be very blest j E- 3 . . 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. FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN Winter... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 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. THE HERMIT; A POEM. BY T. PARNELL, DD WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY GOLDSMITH. THE LIFE... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pages
...strength possesf, 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...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. ' 101 FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. OTERN... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...Goldsmith's " 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 :...and the sky." Talking of education, " People have now a-daya, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...Goldsmith's " 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 :...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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1807 - 904 pages
...strength possest, Tho* very poor, may yet be very blest; 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." May 21, 1(07. ART. XV. The Ruminator. Containing a series of moral and sentimental Essays. IP. IX.... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...strength possest, 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...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. THE HERMIT. [PARNELL.] FAK in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a rev'rend Hermit grew... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...strength possest, 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...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. FOUR ELEGIES; DESCRIPTIVE AND MORAL. SCOTT. ELEGY I. WRITTEN AT THE APPROACH OF SPRING. STERN Winter... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 pages
...strength possest, 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...Time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Whoever is inclined to believe that the writer of these exquisite lines was insensible to the intrinsic... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...strength possest, Though very poor, may still he very blest; 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. THE TRAVELLER; PROSPECT SOC1BV TO THE . . REV. HENRY GOLDSMITH. Dear Sir, T AM sensible that the friendship... | |
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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. 
