 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 - 1845 - 550 sider
...the 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 root!... | |
 | 1845 - 842 sider
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith — ' 111 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.' " The Ckrematists always represent an increase of national... | |
 | 1845 - 614 sider
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 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... | |
 | 1845 - 816 sider
...Goldsmith — ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, •Where wealth accumulates and тол decay ! — Princes and lords may flourish or may...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can петег Ъ* supplied.' " The Cln-ematiels always represent an increase of national... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 sider
...When wealth accumulates, and men decay! Princes, and lords. may,/loiirwAf or may fade; A breath can make, them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied. The kindest, and the happiest pair, Will find occasion — \oforbear; And every day, in which they... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 sider
...strive to promote the welfare of his fellow-men. CHAPTER XIV. 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 destroyed can never be supplied. DESERTED VILLAGE. AFTER Arbridge had quitted the labourer's wretched... | |
 | W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 sider
...soil is left in his squalidness, his helplessness, his want. " 111 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 neglected, ne'er can be supplied." Let the sigh that the expatriated tiller of the soil heaved... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 sider
...the spoilers 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 destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 sider
...country, while in fact they hedge and wall out its real life and soul — iu hanrr peasantry. 10 tares inement would only serve to make their poverty ridiculous,...give them a taste for pleasures they had no right to fade; A breath can make them as a breath has made; «ma bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
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