 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...cries, Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking, from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,,...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 1-ar, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...cries; Sank are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand. Far far away thy children leave the land. : - 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 Seiten
...find amongst his characters the old Country 'Squire himself. 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 : * My first Edition had scarcely been published... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand....children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ilia a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 426 Seiten
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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... 
