 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges, works its weedy wayj head of a petty corporation, who opposes the designs...undiscovered property in the polype, describee an unheeded maintained its man; Por him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...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,...there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'ditsman ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Abigail Adams - Presidents' spouses - 1840 - 310 pages
...train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 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." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning... | |
 | Abigail Adams - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 340 pages
...train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 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." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...these charms are Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the loug grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's...there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, «Tust gave what... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...shriiikingfromthespoiler'skand, 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...there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain' d its man ; For him light Laboufspread her wholesomestore, Just gave what... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - Great Britain - 1841 - 204 pages
...Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 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." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the records... | |
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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... 
