 | Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 pàgines
...Raj is a paternal and fostering Raj for the poor ryots ! " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON. THESE is an anomalous kind of court... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When...began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; 5 For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more... | |
 | 1871 - 732 pàgines
...economy of the paragraph of The Deserted 1'illaye has often been derided, which commences thus : — " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave whnt life required, but gave no more." Now, I am inclined to think that the poet was not so far astray... | |
 | Thomas Bloomer Balch - 1850 - 240 pàgines
...a foreign yoke was effected by the yeomanry of our country. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture is an honorable pursuit. Kings have desired... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 pàgines
...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 Chrematists always represent an increase of national... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pàgines
...weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). ILL fares the land, to hast'ning 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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pàgines
...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...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never De supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make, too much of it. Let two authors,... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pàgines
...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 onco destroy'd, can never be supplied.'" The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 pàgines
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...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... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 198 pàgines
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...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... | |
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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... 
