 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 페이지
...Teach him, 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 ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 페이지
...severity of torture was exercised on the Earl of Athol, one of the murderers of King James I. of Scotland. Dr. Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking...Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the four last : " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 페이지
...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 페이지
...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... | |
 | 1911 - 944 페이지
...seventy years. There is truth as well as exaggeration in the well-known pronouncement of the English poet That trade's proud Empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labored mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 페이지
...Johnson read the poem along some such lines. For here is Johnson's conclusion to The Deserted Village: 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. (lines 427-30) Since Johnson's... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 페이지
...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...labour'd mole away; While self-dependent power can rime defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.' England is certainly not so inhospitable to poetry... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 페이지
...gain; Teach him that states of native strength possessed, 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 power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky.... | |
 | Chaim David Mazoff - 1998 - 192 페이지
...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 labour'd mole away. (424-8) How odd then, that Gary's poem, incorporating Goldsmith's example, portrays the process of... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 페이지
...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 labour'd mole' 2 away; While self dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. 250 30.... | |
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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... 
