 | Arthur Edmondston - Shetland (Scotland) - 1809 - 388 pages
...ideas of society and luxury, are yet true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - Shetland (Scotland) - 1809 - 398 pages
...true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled from their farms, it is not... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvary'd cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...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 ; For him... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the monld'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Tar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Tar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the...men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: I'M) a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - Highlands (Scotland) - 1811 - 402 pages
...described, than in the words of Goldsmith : " 111 fares the land,, to hast'ning ills a prey, While wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords...country's pride,. When once destroy'd can never be supplied." coast there are various kinds of sea-weeds, or wrack, as it is called, which were, till... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless roin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall. And, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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 ; For him... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...character, which he gives to ancient Italy, Terra potent armis atque ubere glebes. LORD BACON. * " III fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " A time there was, ere England's griefs began,... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - Ireland - 1812 - 810 pages
...in mind what has been feelingly expressed by an ingenious poet whom Ireland claims as her own : 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where wealth...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If once destroy'd can never be supply'd. Goldsmith's Deserted Pillage. DUBLIN. — Mr. Luke White,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...spoiler';. hand, Par, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'r.ing ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...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; For him... | |
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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 destroyed, can never... 
