 | English literature - 1811 - 572 pages
...thy green ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvary'd cries; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land." " They have no provisions excepting what they plunder on the spot; or having plundered, what the soldiers... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler';. hand, Par, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'r.ing ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...cries : Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the moulil'ring wall, And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn, Thy sports are fled, and all thy charms withdrawn ; Amidst... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the monld'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoilei's hand Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill...men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, at a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, "V.'lit'H... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 604 pages
...encourage them to abandon their native soil. Alas I • • "III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - . Where wealth accumulates, and men decay....them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In these verses, Sir, is much of sound... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith — < 1ll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade — A breath may make them as a breath has made ; Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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,...far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the tnouhi'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking Irene the spoiler's handFar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prry, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
