 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...  Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales - Page 100edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Howard Davis - Architecture - 2006 - 410 pages
...Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74): 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The nucleated English village disappeared long ago as a... | |
 | Timothy Morton - Drinking behavior - 2000 - 184 pages
...Longman, Rees and Beckel, 1802) III fares the land, to hast'ning Ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; But a bold PEASANTRY their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. GOLDSMITH. Preface It is the remark of a very benevolent... | |
 | Dolores Bausum - Crafts & Hobbies - 2001 - 268 pages
...movement of people from the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; But A bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. ts The popularity of Goldsmith's poem endured for decades.... | |
 | J. R. McNeill - History - 2002 - 452 pages
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village" (1770) The government... | |
 | John Adams - Literary Collections - 2003 - 516 pages
...and dispossess the swain." "111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied."7 Your address8 meets with general approbation here; your... | |
 | Hans Kasdorf - Mennonites - 2004 - 406 pages
...Deserted Village, penned in 1770: ll1 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay! Princes and Lords may flourish, or...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Farminghadbeenrapidlycollectivizedandentirevillagescommunized.... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Drama - 2006 - 259 pages
...the agrarian establishment. III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Olwer Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), 11.51-6 The... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - Business & Economics - 2005 - 232 pages
...splendid and happy land . . . Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made, But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Effects of Enclosure DOCUMENT 146 Rev. D. Davits, The Case... | |
 | Stan Smith - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...synecdoche of a generic destiny: 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied. Nicolson's 'continuity' is a fabrication, emptied of real... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or...made; 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... | |
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