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... The Kilmarnock mirror, and literary gleaner - Page 701820Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...trembling, shrmking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, C. Hall supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
| Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1824 - 876 pages
...such a Government must place reliance, " Princes 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 destroyed, can never be supplied!" I will endeavour to carry your ideas to the very edifice of... | |
| William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...•• •. '•. -••.•.. :, ' « -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 ean never be supplied." Supposing a man intends to emigrate, he should contrast the... | |
| Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 pages
...our country : " 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, When once destroy'd can never be supplied." What is the peasantry of a nation that can only boast of physical strength ? — Without education... | |
| Edward Nares - Precedence - 1824 - 424 pages
...find amongst his characters the old Country 'Squire himself. 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 : * My first Edition had scarcely been published... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...spoiler's hand. Far far away thy children leave the land. : - 111 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 t But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,...destroy'd can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground malntain'd its man ; For him light labour spread... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 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...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 light labour spread... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...in fact they hedge and wall out its real life and soul — its hardy peasantry. Ill fares the land, to hastn'ing ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The poet, again personified in the traveller, returns from his... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...them the beautiful language of the poet : " Princes and lords way florish, 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 be supplied." When a magistrate uses th» power intrusted to him for an improper... | |
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