 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
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...thy children leave the landIll 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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...loud and painful note. • . 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied. MCDIE. THIS mighty and majestic feature of nature inspires... | |
 | Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and lords may flourish, or may...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.39 Enclosure was a two-phased process. Between 1745 and 1780... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - Social Science - 1989 - 416 pages
...sheepwalks to produce wool. Ill fares the land to hastening ills of prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may...make them as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. It seems to me the Mennonites who have... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...blithe Hexameters. (1. 15-20) 3 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, d high On a stern and rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 And the heavy night hung dark When once destroyed, can never be supplied. (1. 51-56) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV;... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...children leave the land, 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may...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... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1995 - 458 pages
...of a wise and virtuous people. "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." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself,... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or...them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 'A time there was, ere... | |
 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...irreversibility of population decline: HI 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 luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, hall not see them lit again in our lifetime. GREY...what's a butterfly? At best. He's but a caterpillar, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades... | |
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