 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 destroy'd, can never...  Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ... - Pagina 248door English poets - 1862Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Abigail Adams - 1922 - 340 pagina’s
...train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 111 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 310 pagina’s
...train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 111 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pagina’s
...were thy charms — but all these charms are Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the loug grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling,...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, «Tust gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pagina’s
...shriiikingfromthespoiler'skand, 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...rood of ground maintain' d its man ; For him light Laboufspread her wholesomestore, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best, companions,... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - 1841 - 204 pagina’s
...Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 111 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the records... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pagina’s
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pagina’s
...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,...England's griefs began , When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store , Just gave what life requir'd... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1842 - 340 pagina’s
...connection be destroyed, and the talisman of the wonder is broken. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. These are the general and leading points in the arguments usually... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 pagina’s
...conveyed in the beautiful language of the moralizing poet : 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes...made, But a bold peasantry their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. We shall have occasion hereafter, if time permits, to examine... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pagina’s
...its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest. The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amid r once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
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