 | 1827 - 152 pages
...Societies for tfte |loor« DEDICATED TO THOMAS BURCH WESTERN, ESQ. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroyed^ can never be supplied, GO£DSMITH. COLCHESTER: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SWINBORNE AND WALTER; SOLD ALSO BY C. AND J. RIVINGTON,... | |
 | Absentee landlordism - 1828 - 64 pages
...AUTHOR, WITH AN EARNEST REQUEST THAT THEY WILL HONOUR THEM WITH A DISPASSIONATE PERUSAL. January 1. 1823. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. * * * * Good heavens ! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring ou to abuse your mother, I will. Tony. Ecod, mother,...Hardcastle. There's morality, however, in his reply. [Exit. once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. time there was, ere England's griefs began, en every rood of... | |
 | Rinse Posthumus - 1836 - 84 pages
...Livre 3, Harmonie 9. DHUKT TE U1UN.S BU J. OOMKENS, w>> Boekforkeaper , Boek- in Stiendrukker . 1856. Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where...But a bold peasantry , their country's pride , When once destroy' d , can never be supplied. Vut O. GOLDSMITHS gedicht , the deserted village. It Franse... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...who is well remembered to have ruled the village with " a tyrant's hand. " — Sec Life, eh. xix.] Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;(s' But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...Life, ch. xix.] Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ;W Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass overtops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made;(2; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1837 - 530 pages
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Mr. Slacker's remedy for the poverty of the " peasantry" is proper encouragement:— Mr. Blacker is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring inger or stronger than he, sit upon his shoulders...born to command, and others to obey, the question nourish or 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 never... 
