 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...  A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... - Page 64by Sir John Carr - 1805 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Jackson (of the Inner temple.) - 1795 - 412 pages
...which our national fafety famaterially depends. " Princes and lords may flQurifh and/rnay fade, " A breath can make them, as a breath hath made; " But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, " When once deflrpy'd, can never be fupplied." GOLDSMITH. Proceedings... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...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 be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : K But a bold peasantry, their 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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - Scotland - 1804 - 342 pages
...men decay ; ff 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 de supplied." GOLDSMITH. 5 And Irave a thousand deaths of various farm. — P. 56. PERHAPS it is none... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...the law now, that they can experience no oppression : 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, AVhen once destroy'd can never be supply'd. The hospitality of the numerous and highly respectable... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 320 pages
...experience no oppression : Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breatk hath made ; But a bold Peasantry, their Country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. The hospitality of the numerous and highly respectable family of the De Conincks, the principal... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...unhonour'd, die. Princes and lords may florish, 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 be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him... | |
 | History - 1807 - 772 pages
..." Princes and peers may flourish or may fade, A breath can make then, as я breath has made ; Eat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied :" he says — The sentiment is false, for it would be still more difficult to re-establish a peerage... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - Shetland (Scotland) - 1809 - 388 pages
...and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fa'de, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled from their farms, it is not at all... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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 be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
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