...marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's " Deserted Village," which are only the last four: " That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky." Talking of education, " People have nowadays (said he) got a strange opinion that every thing should...

...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...

...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...

...strain, Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him, that states of native strength possest, er: so that he began to lose a regard for private interest in universal sympathy. He loved al An ocean sweeps the labour'd mole away ; While self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist...

...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...

...Village, which must teach, hopefully: That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay, As oceans sweep the labour'd mole away; While self-dependent power...time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Here, with unusual precision, what we can later call a Romantic structure of feeling — the assertion...

...sons away. while a dial on a rocky ledge might bear the lines from Goldsmith's "Deserted Village": Self-dependent power can time defy, As rocks resist the billows and the sky. What could be more appropriate than an acrostic of the owner's 3 One might try for a starter one or...

...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...

...Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain ; Teach him that states of native strength possest; Tho'very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's proud...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...

...strain Teach erring man to spum the rage of gain; Teach him that states of native strength possessed, Though very poor, may still be very blest; That trade's...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....