 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 pagini
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith, — ' 111 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.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pagini
...weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pagini
...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | Henry Giles - 1851 - 322 pagini
...his impassioned aspiration, has nothing finer than this : " Hard fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." On Goldsmith's poetry the judgment of the literary and the laity seem unanimous ; both equally approve,... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1880 - 550 pagini
...interests and for the interest of the state ; for it is true, " I11 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." Mr. Kellogg — It seems to me there are three sides to this question. I want to go a little further... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pagini
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pagini
...man's patrimony, and how that he is the rich man's brother! " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied 6 !" From Cissbury we bent our course, having first made the circuit of the ditch, and having examined... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 pagini
...man's patrimony, and how that he is the rich man's brother ! " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied6 !" From Cissbury we bent our course, having first made the circuit of the ditch, and having... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 pagini
...their most genial home among the cultivators of the soil. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supply'd." We are not in immediate danger, certainly, from this source ; but it will be of no ultimate... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pagini
...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...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... | |
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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... 
