 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.  An account of the island of Jersey - Page 261by W. Plees - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 pages
...trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependant power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. RETALIATION. FIRST PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1774 [Dr. Goldsmith and some of his friends occasionally dined... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 pages
...very blest ; That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As ocean swceps the laboured mole away; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows, and the sky. THE CAPTIVITY. AN ORATORIO. THE PERSONS. FIRST JEWISH PROPHET. SECOND JEWISH PROPHET. ISRAELITISH WoMAN.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 200 pages
...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 Utst four liues were written by Johnson. [A correspondent of the SI. Jumen'' Chronicle having... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...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." At night I supped with him at the Mitre tavern, that we might renew our social intimacy at the original... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 pages
...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. RETALIATION, 26 ADVERTISEMENT. THE following account by Garrick of the origin of Retaliation, and the... | |
 | True Worthy Hoit - 1860 - 52 pages
...remember "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." 6 THE RIGHT OF SLAVERY. INTRODUCTION. AFRICAN SLAVERY is, at present, the subject of all-absorbing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...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 say. THE HERMIT; A BALLAD. The following letter, addressed to the printer of the St James's Chronicle,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 pages
...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. 23 23 " Dr. Johnson favoured me at the same time by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's... | |
 | 1863 - 392 pages
...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 COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT. BY ROBERT Bl'RNS. INSCRIBED TO R. AIKEN, ESQ. Let nut Anilntion... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...blcss'd ; 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. . OLIVER GOLDSMITH. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, one of the most pleasing English writers of the eighteenth «entury,... | |
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