 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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 ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 522 pages
...from America, when " trade's unfeeling train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 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; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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 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,... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - 1841 - 204 pages
...evils springing out of your system— * Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...shriiikingfromthespoiler'skand, 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 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...the spoiler's hand Far, tar 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 ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1841 - 304 pages
...threatened with becoming comparatively uninhabited deserts.* " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning woes 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 pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, faraway, thy children leave the land. 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... | |
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