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... A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency Caleb Strong, Esq., Governor, the ... - Página 7por Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - 36 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Smith - 1829 - 432 páginas
...degradation of the peasantry, is as just as it is touching: " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning 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 lias made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 páginas
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a castle. I'll spoil you, I will. [follows him off the...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 - 1830 - 516 páginas
...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... | |
| 1830 - 560 páginas
...agricultural part of the community —that, ' Piinces 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.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princei 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 supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 páginas
...than in both Houses of Parliament : — 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 be supplied. Then such sports, the RUSTIC SPORTS, as we are about to describe,... | |
| Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 456 páginas
...Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied." By their usual clemency, our government has shewn they knew... | |
| Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 438 páginas
...longed for such punishments : but as Goldsmith once said, " 111 fares the land, to hastening ilia a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; 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... | |
| Rinse Posthumus - 1836 - 84 páginas
...OOMKENS, w>> Boekforkeaper , Boek- in Stiendrukker . 1856. Ill fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride , When once destroy' d , can never be supplied. Vut O. GOLDSMITHS gedicht , the deserted village. It Franse fcrske oppe titel kin men sa yn it Frysk... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 páginas
...the epoiler'shand, 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, 'When every rood... | |
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