 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And trembling, shrinking, from the spoiler's hand. 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the monld'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Tar, far away 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... | |
 | William Butler - Arithmetic - 1811 - 548 pages
...whofebufi-' nefs is rural labour. Peafantry denotes country people. Ill fares the land, to haft'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold PEASANTRY, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. GOLDSMITH. It has been... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall. And, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler';. hand, Par, far away 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in fhapeleis ruin all, And the long grafs o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And trembling, fhrinking from the fpoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the laud. Ill fares the land, to haftenmg ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the monld'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoilei's hand 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
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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 be supplied. 
