 | Henry Augustus Boardman - Business & Economics - 1853 - 434 pages
...their most genial home among the cultivators of the soil. " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, AVhen once destroyed, can never be supply'd." We are not in immediate danger, certainly, from this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 pages
...spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 8 Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : * Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. I A time there was, ere England's griefa began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 pages
...And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. ' * 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,/ Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, "When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1854 - 430 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...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more; His... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...and on the least alarm utters a loud and painful note. • . Ill 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied. MCDIE. THIS mighty and majestic feature of nature inspires the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish Literature (in English) - 1854 - 348 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...solitary guest^ The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest. 4. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 6. Sweet Auburn ! parent of the blissful hour, Thy glades forlorn confess the tyrant's power. Here,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1855 - 632 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ¡Ils a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied. • • A time there was, ere Englaud's griefs began, When... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Line 14. For talking age and whispering lovers made. Line 51. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Line 62. And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Line 100. A youth of labor with an age of ease.... | |
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Far, far away thy 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 fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their... 
