 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 páginas
...four : " 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." Talking of education, " People have now-a-days, (said he), got a strange opinion that every thing 'should... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 páginas
...blessed ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. EDWIN AND ANGELINA. ' TURN, gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way, To where yon taper... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 páginas
...: " 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." Talking of education, " People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 páginas
...bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes lo 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. THE HERMIT. A BALLAD. (nttST HUNTED IN THE VICAR or WAEE»IELD, 1765.) THE fOLLOWING LETTER, ADDRESSED... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...very bless'd; 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. THE HERMIT. a UallaD. FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR, 1765. TO of the <£t. SIR, JUNE, 1767. As there is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 486 páginas
...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." At night I supped with him at the Mitre Tavern, that we might renew our social intimacy at the original... | |
 | W. Plees - 1824 - 424 páginas
...effects of slow, though not very uncertain, savings. Commerce dazzles bj far more splendid allurements : hence many, eager to obtain riches, spurn the purer...rocks resist the billows, and the sky." GOLDSMITH. " lorsqu'il a dit: ' Heureux et trop henreux IPS gens ilr la campagne, " s'ilsconnuissoicyt Irs avantages... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 páginas
...very blest : 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.— GOLDSMITH. Edinburgh, 17* April, 1821. THE trumpet of fame long has sounded the warrior's praise in fields of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decaj As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy* As rocks resist the billows and the iky. THE HAUNCH OF VENISON, A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLAHE, FIRST PRINTED IN 1765. THANKS, my lord,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...very blest ; 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. THE GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT GARDEN. SAY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
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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 self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 
