...array'd, In these, ere trifle™ half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy. The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy 't Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, 'Tie...

...In these , ere triflers half their wish obtain , The toiling pleasure sickens into pain : And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks , if this be j oy ? Ye friends to truth , yc. statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase , the poor's decay,...

...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village....

...band ; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden, and a grave. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village....

...pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflers dred score o' 'em. They're douff and dowie at the...They're douff and dowie at the bent, Wi' a' their decav, Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy laud. Proud swells...

...pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflers obert Chambers jovs increase, the poor's decay, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between...

...lines of one of the most highlygifted poets of the last century rise spontaneously to the mind : '^e friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, tho poor's decay, Tis yours to jadgo how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land....

...— In these, ere Iriilers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain; And, e'en ݀ , H-twi en a splen Jid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted ore, And shouting...

...pomp, the midnight masquerade, With all the freaks of wanton wealth arrayed, In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens...decoy, The heart distrusting asks — if this be joy ? COWPEK. PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF HIS LIFE.— William Cowper was born in 1731, at Berkhampstead, in Hertfordshire....

...thee, to me, to him is wanting ; That cruel something unpossess'd, Corrodes and cankers all the rest. And even while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy." The record of the experience of one now lies upon my table, who represents himself as the gayest of...