 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
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sider
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 sider
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning hills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With during... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall; And, trembling, shrmking cular ! Why must the hero with the once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 sider
...thy desert walks, the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 sider
...the country, while in fact they hedge and wall out its real life and soul — its hardy peasantry. Ill fares the land, to hastn'ing ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The poet, again personified in the traveller, returns from his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 sider
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | 1827 - 152 sider
...Societies for tfte |loor« DEDICATED TO THOMAS BURCH WESTERN, ESQ. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...But a bold Peasantry, their Country's pride, When once destroyed^ can never be supplied, GO£DSMITH. COLCHESTER: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SWINBORNE AND WALTER;... | |
 | 1828 - 64 sider
...HONOUR THEM WITH A DISPASSIONATE PERUSAL. January 1. 1823. 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. * * * * Good heavens ! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day,... | |
 | Nicholas Carlisle - 1828 - 352 sider
...knowing that if their vices bring them into utter want, they must be maintained in idleness at last 3 HI fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...accumulates, and men decay: Princes and Lords may nourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold Peasantry, their Country's... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 sider
...lamentation of the poet over the degradation of the peasantry, is as just as it is touching: " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath lias made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
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