 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...  The book of celebrated poems - Stran 165avtor: Book - 1854 - 448 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 strani
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills 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 destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 strani
...But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks...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 - 1819 - 120 strani
...spoiler's handFar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prry, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and...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 rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 strani
...choak'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks...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... | |
 | 1820 - 590 strani
...which the eye of a patriot can rest with unmingled »atisfaction. In his deliberate judgment ; "HI fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...: 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,... | |
 | 1820 - 344 strani
...universally acknowledged remedy for an irremedible evil. " 111 fares the land," says my favourite poet, " to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1820 - 880 strani
...the community — that, " Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; Abreath can make them as я breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's...pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied.'' So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community — the unpaid magistracy of the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 strani
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And dreg their echoes with unvary'd cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, , And the long grass o'ertops...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 rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 strani
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,. When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every-rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 strani
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what... | |
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