 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...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5281845Full view - About this book
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 456 pages
...more justly applied to many of those who longed for such punishments : but as Goldsmith once said, " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry — their country's... | |
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 438 pages
...longed for such punishments : but as Goldsmith once said, " 111 fares the land, to hastening ilia a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry — their country's... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...shall we not rather adopt the sentiment of Goldsmith, and say : III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath unmakes them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Rinse Posthumus - 1836 - 84 pages
...OOMKENS, w>> Boekforkeaper , Boek- in Stiendrukker . 1856. 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... | |
 | 1862 - 464 pages
...zeide Goldsmith, en zijne woorden heeft Posthumus overgenomen en vertaald [Jouwerkoerke , pag. 3]: „ 111 fares the land, to hastening ilLs a prey, „...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 countrys pride,... | |
 | 1837 - 704 pages
...the national scroll the record of old—' They forsook the Lord, and served Baalim and Ashteroth.' ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath CIHI make them, as a breath has made ; Hut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | 1837 - 530 pages
...labourer, illustrating his remarks by the following beautiful quotation from the Deserted Village : " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Picaroon - 1837 - 958 pages
...understanding, as pass the broken traces of a dream. CHAPTER X. " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning 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,... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...being successfully combatted. The economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...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,... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 pages
...being successfully combatted. The economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...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,... | |
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