| Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 páginas
...conveyed in the beautiful language of the moralizing poet : 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes...made, But a bold peasantry their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. We shall have occasion hereafter, if time permits, to examine... | |
| 1845 - 614 páginas
...Along thy glades, a solitary guest. The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amid thy desert walks once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 páginas
...unvaried cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the moldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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...there was. ere England's griefs began, When every root! of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what... | |
| 1845 - 842 páginas
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith — ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ! Princes...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Ckrematists always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily flowing from an augmentation... | |
| Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 páginas
...to the regeneration of the people, and strive to promote the welfare of his fellow-men. CHAPTER XIV. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. DESERTED VILLAGE. AFTER Arbridge had quitted the labourer's wretched... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 páginas
...ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoilers hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill...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 rood... | |
| W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 páginas
...soil is left in his squalidness, his helplessness, his want. " 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 neglected, ne'er can be supplied." Let the sigh that the expatriated tiller of the soil heaved... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...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... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 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 destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
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