| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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