 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the moldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from 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 and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...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. 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 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall . And, trembling, shrinking from 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 and lords may flourish or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...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 pages
...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. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, .A'd, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Fir, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Wiere wealth accumulates, and men decay : Prnces and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...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. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...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. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...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. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
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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 be supplied. 
