 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
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1852 - 364 pages
...untarnished goldPrinces and lords may flourish and 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. On what he would call the philosophy of society, he had his own recondite opinions, for the adoption... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - England - 1852 - 584 pages
...untarnished goldPrinces and lords may flourish and 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. On what he would call the philosophy of society, he had his own recondite opinions, for the adoption... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 322 pages
...own knowledge." CHAPTER V. " Princes and priests may flourish and may fade, A breath can unmake what a breath hath made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy' d, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. SOME of Lord Eaglescairn's villagers, struck with... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 320 pages
..." Princes and priests may flourish and may fade, A breath can unmake what a breath hath made. Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. SOME of Lord Eaglescairn's villagers, struck with the obvious fact that they existed only... | |
 | Art - 1904 - 918 pages
...Mason of the Taunton School of Art, and give them a new and vitalising lead and trend : — for " — a bold peasantry their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied." It remained for him to move the formal vote of thanks to Mr. Alan Cole ; and he did so not only formally,... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...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 supplied. MCDIE. THIS mighty and majestic feature of nature inspires the beholder with a feeling of immensity... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, William Collins, George Gilfillan, Thomas Warton - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...men decay. 'V 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs be<rn.Ti. When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For... | |
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