| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1838 - 476 pages
...cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking, from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land." Dark clouds had gathered along the sky, and the wind was increasing, when we left Scio and stood across... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pages
...and wall out its real life and soul — its hard» peasantry. Ш fares Ле land, to hast'ninj ilia a facie; A breath ran make them as a breath has made; Buta bold peasantry, tlieir country's pride, When... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...charms are Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the loug grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...the spoiler's hand Far, tar away thy children leave the land. 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 ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
| William Henry Harvey - 1841 - 304 pages
...threatened with becoming comparatively uninhabited deserts.* " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning woes 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 pride,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...cries : Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and... | |
| 1843 - 698 pages
...: One only roaster grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. * t * * * And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. » * * * * A time there was, ere England's grief began. For him light labour spread her vjholeiome... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild. There,... | |
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