 Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never...  The book of celebrated poems - Side 165af Book - 1854 - 448 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 sider
...the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Par, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 sider
...ideas of society and luxury, are yet true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroy 'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled from their farms, it is not at all... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 sider
...ideas of society. and luxury, are yet true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...unvary'd cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall : And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can muke them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 398 sider
...true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sider
...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill feres fade ; A breath can make them as a breath lla»4nadc : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sider
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvary'd cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 sider
...the long grass o'ertops the monld'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Tar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sider
...the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Tar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the...men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: I'M) a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 sider
...described, than in the words of Goldsmith : " 111 fares the land,, to hast'ning ills a prey, While wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,. When once destroy'd can never be supplied." coast there are various kinds of sea-weeds, or wrack, as it... | |
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