 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1878 - 154 Seiten
...to spurn the rage of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, _ pnor, may still be That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, ^ resist the billows and the sky. 490 RETALIATION. RETALIATION: INCLUDING EPITAPHS ON THE MOST DISTINGUISHED... | |
 | New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1879 - 718 Seiten
...remember, — " That states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blessed; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away. Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky."... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 Seiten
...; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest ; 426 her of them never purposely set themselves to the study of it as an laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | 1926 - 780 Seiten
...of gain; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Tho' very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labor 'd mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | Francis Joseph Bigger - 1927 - 252 Seiten
...gain ; Teach him that states of native strength possest, Though very poor may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Francis Joseph Bigger - 1927 - 254 Seiten
...gain ; Teach him that states of native strength possest, Though very poor may still be very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away ; While self dependent pow'r can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 Seiten
...Teach him, that states of native strength possessed, 425 Though very poor, may still be very 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 Seiten
...marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labnur'd mole away : While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 Seiten
...Hornecks, the elder 2 of whom he had fitted with the pretty pet name " the Jessamy Bride," and who 1 That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away; While self-respecting power can Time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1937 - 550 Seiten
...gain ; Teach him that states of native strength possest, Tho' 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 def//. As rocks resint the billows and the »kii." — Goldsmith, "The... | |
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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... 
