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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... "
Our Poetical Favorites, Second Series: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems ... - Page 89
1876 - 543 pages
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 3

Archibald Alison - 1850 - 746 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 once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national...
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Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation ...

James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 198 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different...
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Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation ...

James Joseph Nolan - 1850 - 208 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a eountry's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pages
...'jheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all these charms are fled. - Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled,...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its...
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The poetical works of Oliver Goldsmith, with illustr. by J. Absolon [and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...solitary guest, Tie hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flics, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk...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...
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Lectures and Essays, Volume 1

Henry Giles - 1851 - 322 pages
...his impassioned aspiration, has nothing finer than this : " Hard fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." On Goldsmith's poetry the judgment of the literary and the laity seem unanimous ; both equally approve,...
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Guy's new speaker, selections of poetry and prose from the best writers in ...

Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding-bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing...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...
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Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Volume 18

Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1880 - 550 pages
...interests and for the interest of the state ; for it is true, " I11 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." Mr. Kellogg — It seems to me there are three sides to this question. I want to go a little further...
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Appendicia Et Pertinentiae; Or, Parochial Fragments Relating to the Parish ...

John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...man's patrimony, and how that he is the rich man's brother! " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied 6 !" From Cissbury we bent our course, having first made the circuit of the ditch, and having examined...
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