 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
 | J. Winfield Fretz - 1989 - 416 pages
...landowners who wanted the land for sheepwalks to produce wool. Ill fares the land to hastening ills of 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, a country's pride, When once... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 pages
...land so vividly conjured up in Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll 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, When... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...fulfils, Who cuts with his scythe All things but hers; All but the blithe Hexameters. (1. 15-20) 3 FPL; WBLP The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers 3 The...high On a stern and rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 An fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When... | |
 | Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd - 1993 - 598 pages
...sentimentally — what was lost when efficient agriculture was gained: /// fares the land, to fastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make ttiem, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land, 50 111 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, When... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 pages
...by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. '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, [yeomanry] their country's... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 pages
...greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fell, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry — their country's pride,... | |
 | Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 pages
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI 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... | |
 | Nancy Jack Todd - 1997 - 350 pages
...peasant agricultural skills when he penned these lines in "The Deserted Village," published in 1770: 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes or lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. GREY Joh fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
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