 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...  English Poets of the Eighteenth Century - Pàgina 209editat per - 1918 - 364 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pàgines
...were thy charms — but all these charms are Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the loug grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling,...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... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - 1841 - 204 pàgines
...Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the records of any country, we will apologize for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pàgines
...shriiikingfromthespoiler'skand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pàgines
...long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand Far, tar away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land,...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or may fade : A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1842 - 340 pàgines
...connection be destroyed, and the talisman of the wonder is broken. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. These are the general and leading points in the arguments usually brought forward by the defenders... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pàgines
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. HI 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... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 pàgines
...conveyed in the beautiful language of the moralizing poet : 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. We shall have occasion hereafter, if time permits, to examine the pretensions of monarchical institutions... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pàgines
...its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest. The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amid r con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pàgines
...unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the moldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pàgines
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall . And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...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!... | |
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