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... A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Seite 441von Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 715 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 Seiten
...the 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...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every root! of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
| 1845 - 842 Seiten
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith — ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ! Princes...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Ckrematists always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily flowing from an augmentation... | |
| 1845 - 614 Seiten
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| 1845 - 816 Seiten
...Goldsmith — ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, •Where wealth accumulates and тол decay ! — Princes and lords may flourish or may...peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can петег Ъ* supplied.' " The Cln-ematiels always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily... | |
| Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 Seiten
...strive to promote the welfare of his fellow-men. CHAPTER XIV. 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 destroyed can never be supplied. DESERTED VILLAGE. AFTER Arbridge had quitted the labourer's wretched... | |
| W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 Seiten
...soil is left in his squalidness, his helplessness, his want. " 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 neglected, ne'er can be supplied." Let the sigh that the expatriated tiller of the soil heaved... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 Seiten
...the spoilers 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 destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 Seiten
...spoiler's hand, 40 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 destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 Seiten
...Raj is a paternal and fostering Raj for the poor ryots ! " 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." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON.... | |
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