 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 Seiten
...the country, while in fact they hedge and wall out its real life and soul — its hardy peasantry. Ill fares the land, to hastn'ing ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The poet, again personified in the traveller, returns from his wanderings in distant countries to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1825 - 544 Seiten
...them the beautiful language of the poet : " Princes and lords way florish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." When a magistrate uses th» power intrusted to him for an improper purpose, when he acts as judge in... | |
 | 1827 - 152 Seiten
...Societies for tfte |loor« DEDICATED TO THOMAS BURCH WESTERN, ESQ. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroyed^ can never be supplied, GO£DSMITH. COLCHESTER: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SWINBORNE AND WALTER; SOLD ALSO BY C. AND J. RIVINGTON,... | |
 | 1828 - 64 Seiten
...HONOUR THEM WITH A DISPASSIONATE PERUSAL. January 1. 1823. 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. * * * * Good heavens ! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day,... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvary'd cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all,...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. time there was, ere England's griefs began, en every rood of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 Seiten
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a castle. I'll spoil you, I will. [follows him off the...Hardcastle. There's morality, however, in his reply. [Exit. once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 Seiten
...than in both Houses of Parliament : — Princes' and Lords may flourish or may fade : A breath can make them as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry»...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. Then such sports, the RUSTIC SPORTS, as we are about to describe, we trust will always be supported... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 Seiten
...And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And, trcmbling, shrinking from the epoiler'shand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares...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... | |
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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 never... 
