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... Favourite English poems and poets - Página 318por English poems - 1870 - 672 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1837 - 530 páginas
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right. " 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 supplied." Mr. Slacker's remedy for the poverty of the " peasantry" is... | |
| 1862 - 464 páginas
...Posthumus overgenomen en vertaald [Jouwerkoerke , pag. 3]: „ 111 fares the land, to hastening ilLs a prey, „ Where wealth accumulates and men decay....a breath has made; „ But a bold peasantry, their countrys pride, „ When once destroyed can never be supplied. De Romeinen, het grootste volk dat op... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 páginas
...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...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 requir'd,... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 páginas
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 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 ne ver be supplied." Mr. Blacker is determined they shall not be destroyed. He... | |
| Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 páginas
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 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 supplied." Mr. Blacker is determined they shall not be destroyed. He has... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 páginas
...choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow -sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks...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 - 1839 - 550 páginas
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring ncipies of the civil law, and can write a fine hand,...never touch a romance or novel; these paint beauty root! of ground maintained its man; Por him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 páginas
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 3 Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry,...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 requir'd,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 páginas
...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walk the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'ditsman ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but... | |
| 1840 - 378 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 maintain'd its man ; C2 For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just... | |
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