| British poets - 1822 - 290 páginas
...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 páginas
...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...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... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 páginas
...clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head." " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning hills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." " Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With during aims irregularly great: Pride... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 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...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 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...A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground malntain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store ; Just gave... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 páginas
...and wall out its real life and soul — its hardy peasantry. Ill fares the land, to hastn'ing 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. The poet, again personified in the traveller, returns from his... | |
| 1827 - 152 páginas
...Societies for tfte |loor« DEDICATED TO THOMAS BURCH WESTERN, ESQ. Ill fares the laud, 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, GO£DSMITH. COLCHESTER: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SWINBORNE AND WALTER;... | |
| 1828 - 64 páginas
...AUTHOR, WITH AN EARNEST REQUEST THAT THEY WILL HONOUR THEM WITH A DISPASSIONATE PERUSAL. January 1. 1823. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. * * * * Good heavens ! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day, That tore them from their native fields... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 páginas
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring ou to abuse your mother, I will. Tony. Ecod, mother,...Hardcastle. There's morality, however, in his reply. [Exit. maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
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