 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 destroy'd, can never...  A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... - Page 64by Sir John Carr - 1805 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 466 pages
...— tbat, " ' 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community — the unpaid magistracy of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pages
...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 destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, 'When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; Рог... | |
 | 1837 - 530 pages
...ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." And he would say that the surest mode of accomplishing so deplorable... | |
 | World - 1837 - 362 pages
...such landlords' heads with merited retribution ? 2 ' 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, If once destroyed, can never be supplied.' 5. But that cause, which unquestionably more than all others... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;(s' 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 of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath CIHI make them, as a breath has made ; Hut a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.' We must now turn from the melancholy spectacle, which we have been contemplating; and, begging our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...land. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; Bu^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 of ground maintain'd its man; For him... | |
 | 1838 - 508 pages
...community— that, ' 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community — the unpaid magistracy of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...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 destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; C2 For... | |
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