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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 ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can... "
The Calcutta Review - Page 383
1849
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...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,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...out its real life and soul-— Us hordj peasantry. Dl lares the land, lo hasi'nin; ilb a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; •tut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,...
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Vlämisch-Belgien, Volume 2

Gustaf Höfken - Belgium - 1847 - 626 pages
...23cwoi)ner ЬаЬигф in bie grembe getrieben Würben, fo fфlnerjl)aft alö Wafyr fфi(bert — „111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...accumulates, and men decay: Princes and Lords may nourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...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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Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation ...

James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 208 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a eountry's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different...
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Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation ...

James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 198 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...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 may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;f But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...MOSES MABGOUOCTH. ON A PASSAGE IN GOLDSMITH. Goldsmith, in The Deserted Village, has the lines : " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A brt-ath can wuhe them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasanlry, their country's pride,...
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Studies from the English poets

George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far uway thy children leave the land. so 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes und lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry,...
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The popular educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 8

Popular educator - 1854 - 940 pages
...with unmingled satisfaction. In his deliberate judgment, " III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fad» ; A BREATU can make them, as a breath has mad» But a BOLD PEASANTHY, their country' i pride,...
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