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
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 páginas
...well-known lines of Goldsmith,— ' 111 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 onco destroy'd, can never be supplied.'" The Chrematists always represent an increase of national... | |
| A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 páginas
...DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 páginas
...well-known lines of Goldsmith, — ' 111 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.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 páginas
...causeth to err, (Prov. xix. 27.) Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, . Where wealth accuumlates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never De supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make,... | |
| Thomas Bloomer Balch - 1850 - 240 páginas
...the yeomanry of our country. Ill fares the land, to hastening 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 destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture... | |
| James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 198 páginas
...not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different... | |
| James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 páginas
...not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a eountry's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 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... | |
| Henry Giles - 1851 - 322 páginas
...nothing finer than this : " Hard 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." On Goldsmith's poetry the judgment of the literary and... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 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 destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every... | |
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