 | James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a eountry's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...causeth to err, (Prov. xix. 27.) Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, . Where wealth accuumlates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never De supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make, too much... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood... | |
 | Henry Giles - 1851 - 322 pages
...his impassioned aspiration, has nothing finer than this : " Hard 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." On Goldsmith's poetry the judgment of the literary and the... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1880 - 550 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." Mr. Kellogg — It seems to me there are three sides to this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 pages
...spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 8 Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : * Princes...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. I A time there was, ere England's griefa began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied6 !" From Cissbury we bent our course, having first made the circuit... | |
 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 432 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supply'd." We are not in immediate danger, certainly, from this source... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied 6 !" From Cissbury we bent our course, having first made the circuit... | |
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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... 
