 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...  Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales - Página 100editado por - 1872Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 páginas
...and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or...made; 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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 páginas
...thy children leave the land.. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay! Princes and lords may flourish, or...made: 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 páginas
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made: 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... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 páginas
...the words of Goldsmith : " 111 fares the land,, to hast'ning ills a prey, While wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made :. 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... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 páginas
...ubere glebes. LORD BACON. * " III fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 810 páginas
...Ireland claims as her own : 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If once destroy'd can never be supply'd. Goldsmith's Deserted Pillage. DUBLIN. — Mr. Luke White,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 páginas
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'r.ing ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or...made: 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... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, "Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made : 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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...riches, ignorance of weaIth. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or...breath can make. them, as a breath has made : But a holil peasa. fry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. Bui times are... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 páginas
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made : 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 ev'ry... | |
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