 | W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 pages
...soil is left in his squalidness, his helplessness, his want. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once neglected, ne'er can be supplied." Let the sigh that the expatriated tiller of the soil heaved... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood... | |
 | 1849 - 634 pages
...Raj is a paternal and ' fostering Raj for the poor ryots !" ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, ' Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; '...pride, ' When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In several chapters our hero describes, in an historical manner, the survey, and other operations in... | |
 | Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 pages
...Raj is a paternal and fostering Raj for the poor ryots ! " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON. THESE is an anomalous kind of court... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 40 Far, far away thy children leave the land, ill fares...men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...Ireland, kept by the Roman Catholic peasantry.] No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, chok'd with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades,...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;f But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Thomas Bloomer Balch - 1850 - 240 pages
...their retainers. Our own deliverance from a foreign yoke was effected by the yeomanry of our country. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture is an honorable pursuit. Kings have desired... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...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... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith,— ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ! Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When onco destroy'd, can never be supplied.'" The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...causeth to err, (Prov. xix. 27.) Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, . Where wealth accuumlates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never De supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make, too much of it. Let two authors,... | |
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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 never... 
