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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... "
The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone - Page 104
by James Boswell - 1821
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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 labour' d mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength posses), 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, Ae rocks resist the billows and the...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength point rt, Though very poor, may still be veiy blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour' il mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the...
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, Though very poor, may still be very blest ; e go To treat as dearest friend a foe; They never importune his grac labored mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky....
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New Quarterly Review; Or, Home, Foreign and Colonial Journal, Volume 6

1846 - 532 pages
...tremendous proof, 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 laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the...
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Brief Considerations with Reference to the Corn Laws, and on the Theory of ...

Brief considerations - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1846 - 64 pages
...mechanical arts accompanies its decline. All history moreover confirms the assertion of the poet, " That Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the laboured mole away, Whilst self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the...
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The English Prosody: With Rules Deduced from the Genius of Our Language, and ...

Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 pages
...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 laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1883 - 668 pages
...the nine lines of the Traveller, and "added, 'These are all of which I can be sure'"; and again, " Dr. Johnson at the same time favoured me by marking...Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four." All the editions of both poems up to the time that Boswell wrote, which, of course, was subsequent...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...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 ; 25 While self-dependent power can time defy, As reeks resist the billows and the...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...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 laboured mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the...
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