 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 - Sivu 5281845Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 sivua
...spoiler's hand, Par, 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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 sivua
...spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill feres the land, to hast'ning ills a a throne, He 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 sivua
...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 muke them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 sivua
...true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. 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, When... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sivua
...spoiler's hand, Tar, 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: I'M) a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sivua
...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, When... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 sivua
...described, than in the words of Goldsmith : " 111 fares the land,, to hast'ning ills a prey, While 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,.... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 sivua
...Italy, Terra potent armis atque ubere glebes. LORD BACON. * " III 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... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 810 sivua
...expressed by an ingenious poet whom Ireland claims as her own : 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; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If... | |
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