 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 - Page 100edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...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 supplv'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 604 pages
...native soil. Alas I • • "III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - . Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may...them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In these verses, Sir, is much of sound... | |
 | Asia - 1817 - 696 pages
...every principle of sound political economy, and in every thing commendable, except as above admitted. " A time there was, 'ere England's griefs began, When...its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome storef Just give what life required, and gave no more; His best companions, innocence and health) And... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the laud, to hastening 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 bold peasantry—their country's pride— When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prry, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or...made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once ctestroy'd,can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 344 pages
...111 fares the land," says my favourite poet, " 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 Scotland's ' griefs began, When every... | |
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...In his deliberate judgment ; "HI 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." It is an intelligent, virtuous, free and extensh ipuhition,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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 be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry... | |
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