 | Nicholas Carlisle - 1828 - 352 sider
...knowing that if their vices bring them into utter want, they must be maintained in idleness at last 3 HI fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...accumulates, and men decay: Princes and Lords may nourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold Peasantry, their Country's... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 sider
...lamentation of the poet over the degradation of the peasantry, is as just as it is touching: " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath lias made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sider
...cries. Sank are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass overtops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princei and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 sider
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; buse your mother, I will. Tony. Ecod, mother, all...you have spoiled me, and so you may take the fruit hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or... | |
 | John Grigg Hewlett - 1835 - 254 sider
...green : Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin 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." GOLDSMITH. READER, I have a tale to tell you, — and one of more than common interest; the facts of... | |
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 438 sider
...longed for such punishments : but as Goldsmith once said, " 111 fares the land, to hastening ilia a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry — their country's... | |
 | 1836 - 784 sider
...shall we not rather adopt the sentiment of Goldsmith, and say : III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath unmakes them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 sider
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall; i And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; Bu^a bold... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 sider
...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 may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | 1837 - 704 sider
...They forsook the Lord, and served Baalim and Ashteroth.' ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates. and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath CIHI make them, as a breath has made ; Hut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
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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... 
