 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 Guernsey and Jersey Magazine - Seite 2651836Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Henry Giles - 1851 - 322 Seiten
...his impassioned aspiration, has nothing finer than this : " Hard 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... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 Seiten
...land so vividly conjured up in Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll fares the land, to hast'ning 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... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - 1989 - 416 Seiten
...landowners who wanted the land for sheepwalks to produce wool. Ill fares the land to hastening ills of 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, a country's pride, When once... | |
 | 1920 - 642 Seiten
...on inspection laws as regulations of commerce. Some Negligence Cases PRINCES and kings may nourish or may fade, a breath unmakes them as a breath has made, but a bold peasantry, its country's pride, will probably continue to ride in railway and street cars with its elbows out... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...things but hers; All but the blithe Hexameters. (1. 15-20) 3 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a thers 3 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 An fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When... | |
 | Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd - 1993 - 598 Seiten
...sentimentally — what was lost when efficient agriculture was gained: /// fares the land, to fastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make ttiem, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. '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, [yeomanry] their country's... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 Seiten
...greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fell, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry — their country's pride,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land, 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 Seiten
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI 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... | |
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