 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 pages
...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 destroyed, can never be supplied. For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more; His... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...land so vividly conjured up in Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll 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 supplied.39 Enclosure was a two-phased process. Between 1745 and 1780 the... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - Social Science - 1989 - 416 pages
...landowners who wanted the land for sheepwalks to produce wool. Ill fares the land to hastening ills of prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...make them as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. It seems to me the Mennonites who have... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...things but hers; All but the blithe Hexameters. (1. 15-20) 3 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a thers 3 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern...rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 And the heavy night hung dark (1. 51-56) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; PoEL-3; TEP Retaliation A To coxcombs averse,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land, 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes...every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: 60 His best companions,... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1995 - 458 pages
...greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...pride, — When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself, — "At night returning, every labor sped, He... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 'A time there was, ere... | |
 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...This accounts for some broad similarities with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings, force the poor to emigrate abroad or... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades like these. A youth of labour with an age... | |
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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... 
