 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 Seiten
...with unmingled satisfaction. In his deliberate judg10 ment, "El 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 : 15 But a BOLD PEASANTRY, their country's pride,... | |
 | 1845 - 614 Seiten
...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 hand,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall . And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 Seiten
...cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the moldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 Seiten
...country, while in fact they hedge and wall out its real life and soul — iu hanrr peasantry. 10 tares inement would only serve to make their poverty ridiculous,...give them a taste for pleasures they had no right to fade; A breath can make them as a breath has made; «ma bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 206 Seiten
...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 hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 216 Seiten
...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 hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. * * * * THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 29 Sweet was the sound when oft, at evening's close, Up yonder hill the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 Seiten
...ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoilers 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...spoiler's hand, 40 Far, far away 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 may fade ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time... | |
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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... 
