 | Friedrich von Raumer - Great Britain - 1842 - 340 pages
...manufactures, and commerce; let this connection be destroyed, and the talisman of the wonder is broken. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. These are the general and leading points in the arguments usually... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. HI 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Natural law - 1844 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...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...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Ckrematists always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily flowing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...the spoiler's hand Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every root! of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...Goldsmith — ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, •Where wealth accumulates and тол decay ! — Princes and lords may flourish or may...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... | |
 | Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...strive to promote the welfare of his fellow-men. CHAPTER XIV. Ill 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. DESERTED VILLAGE. AFTER Arbridge had quitted the labourer's wretched... | |
 | W. H. Leigh - Australia - 1847 - 244 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
