 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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 root! of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...тол decay ! — Princes and lords may flourish or may fade — A breath may make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can петег Ъ* supplied.' " The Cln-ematiels always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily... | |
 | Camilla Crosland - 1846 - 176 pages
...PAUPER PEASANT.* " 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."—GOLDSMITH. 'NEATH the summer's sun, and the winter's snow, Through Youth and Manhood's... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...And his supreme delight, a country fair. DRYDEN. 5. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath hath made ; But...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 6. From labour health, from health contentment springs ; Contentment... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...And his supreme delight, a country fair. DRYDEN. 5. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath hath made ; But...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 6. From labour health, from health contentment springs ; Contentment... | |
 | Gustaf Höfken - 1847 - 626 pages
...and men decay: Princes and Lords may nourish, 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 supplied11. 3lorbmebcrlanb ift in тапфег §inftcl)t дШсШфег geftclít als Belgien. (So... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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 supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 pages
...and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade — A breath may make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,...When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily flowing from an augmentation... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;f 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 ; * [" Those... | |
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