 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; II But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Seite 6511885Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1792 - 112 Seiten
...Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land , to haft'ning ills a prey ; , Where wealth accumulates , and men decay : Princes and Lords...breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd , can never be fupply'd. A time there was , ere... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 Seiten
...hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. / 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 : K But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 Seiten
...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 madp : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill feres the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where e gain his 1'rince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dup fade ; A breath can make them as a breath lla»4nadc : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...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 muke them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...health ; And his best riches, ignorance of weaIth. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords...breath can make. them, as a breath has made : But a holil peasa. fry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. Bui times are... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1817 - 612 Seiten
...encourage them to abandon their native soil. Alas ! "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords...them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In these verses, Sir, is much of sound... | |
 | 1845 - 816 Seiten
...Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith — < 1ll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade — A breath may make them as a breath has made ; Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 Seiten
...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, at a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, "V.'lit'H... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 Seiten
...hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords...breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry—their country's pride— When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was,... | |
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