 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pagina’s
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning hills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With during aims irregularly great: Pride... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1823 - 386 pagina’s
...Where wealth accumulates and men decay ;. Princes and Lords njay flourish or may fade . A breath can make them as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'<! can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; . Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 pagina’s
...places ; I only regret that he did not find amongst his characters the old Country 'Squire himself. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...men decay ; Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made : * My first Edition had scarcely been published... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 532 pagina’s
...•• •. '•. -••.•.. :, ' « -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 ean never be supplied." Supposing a man intends to emigrate, he should contrast the... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pagina’s
...our country : " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied." What is the peasantry of a nation that can only boast of physical strength ? — Without education... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1824 - 876 pagina’s
...such a Government must place reliance, " 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 pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied!" I will endeavour to carry your ideas to the very edifice of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagina’s
...spoiler's hand. Far far away thy children leave the land. : - 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 t But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagina’s
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground malntain'd its man ; For him... | |
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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... 
