 | Agriculture - 1837 - 530 pages
...following beautiful quotation from the Deserted Village : " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Middle East - 1838 - 278 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, far away, thy children leave the land." Dark clouds had gathered along the sky, and the wind was increasing, when we left Scio, and stood across... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Middle East - 1838 - 476 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, far away, thy children leave the land." Dark clouds had gathered along the sky, and the wind was increasing, when we left Scio and stood across... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...and wall out its real life and soul — its hard» peasantry. Ш fares Ле land, to hast'ninj ilia a facie; A breath ran make them as a breath has made; Buta bold peasantry, tlieir country's pride, When... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...charms are Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the loug 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...the spoiler's hand Far, tar away 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 fade : A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1841 - 304 pages
...threatened with becoming comparatively uninhabited deserts.* " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning woes a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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, far away, thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and... | |
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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... 
