 | 596 pagina’s
...cause better than he could do it : he said, " 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 csB never be iupplied." To accomplish these grand and important objects, they had met... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 pagina’s
...degradation of the peasantry, is as just as it is touching: " 111 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 lias made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pagina’s
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. you may take the fruits on't. Airs. Hardcastle. I'll...Hardcastle. There's morality, however, in his reply. [Exit. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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. time there was, ere England's griefs began, en every rood of ground maintain'd its man ;... | |
 | 1830 - 560 pagina’s
...agricultural part of the community —that, ' Piinces and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry;...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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pagina’s
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princei and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry,...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.... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 pagina’s
...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» their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. Then such sports, the RUSTIC SPORTS, as we are about to describe,... | |
 | Karl August Varnhagen von Ense - 1833 - 640 pagina’s
...SJîanneê, п>е1феп bie SBelt je^t betrauert," bie bafelbfî angeführten SBerfe in Erinnerung: , . , , But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.) liefet Sujlanb nun, unter юе!фет ® allien feufjte, blieb unter unb паф ber Eroberung Ьигф... | |
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 456 pagina’s
...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...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." By their usual clemency, our government has shewn they knew the value of our poor peasantry better... | |
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 438 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
