...weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). 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...

...things but hers; All but the blithe Hexameters. (1. 15-20) 3 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a thers 3 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern...rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 And the heavy night hung dark (1. 51-56) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; PoEL-3; TEP Retaliation A To coxcombs averse,...

...spoiler's hand, 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...began. When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: 60...

...paramount basis of a country's greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where...pride, — When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself, — "At night returning, every labor sped, He...

...poem flows, will be most clearly seen, by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 'A time there was, ere...

...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings, force the poor to emigrate abroad or...

...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,...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Loss of knowledge and skills is now a big problem in our universities, and no subject is in greater...

...plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades like these. A youth of labour with an age...

...and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath had made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,...began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His...

...in the poem "Sweet Auburn," by Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74): 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The nucleated English village disappeared long ago as a unified social and economic entity. This is...