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 - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 - 1841 - 398 pages
...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... | |
| George Calvert Holland - Great Britain - 1841 - 204 pages
...on the Factory Commission. " 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the... | |
| Friedrich von Raumer - Great Britain - 1842 - 340 pages
...talisman of the wonder is broken. 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 supplied. These are the general and leading points in the arguments... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...thy children leave the land. HI 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... | |
| John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...GARDENING. The substance of a Paper read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more ; His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
| Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...language of the moralizing poet : 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 destroyed can never be supplied. We shall have occasion hereafter, if time permits, to examine... | |
| English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...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, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...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... | |
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