 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 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 HAUNCH OF VENISON. A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE. THANKS, my lord, for your venison, for finer... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 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 :...defy, " As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talkiog of education, " People have now-a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 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 GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. SAY, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 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 GIFT. TO IRIS, IN BOW-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. Say, cruel Iris, pretty rake, Dear mercenary beauty,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 296 pages
...strength 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 UallaD. FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR, 1765. TO of the <£t. SIR, JUNE, 1767. As there is... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...possess'd, Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes lo swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away; While...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 480 pages
...only the last four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, " As ocean sweeps the labour d mole away : " While self-dependent power can time...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 472 pages
...the last four : " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, " As ocean sweeps the labour' d mole away : " While self-dependent power can time...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... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...nossess'd. Though very poor, may still be very bless'd ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decaj As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent...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,... | |
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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. 
