 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 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. ' * 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,/ Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : ) Princes... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 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. * The bittern may be said to be the bird of desolation : "the bittern shall dwell there" is the final... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 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. El fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords... | |
 | M. W. Beresford, John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph, J. K. S. Joseph - Social Science - 1979 - 320 pages
...Northamptonshire families, 1540-1649. Northants. Rec. Soc. xix (1956). II. DISSOLUTION BY RETREAT 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; . . . But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - History - 1982 - 344 pages
...thy greed; One only master grasps the whole domain And half a tillage stints thy smiling pain. . . . And trembling shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Goldsmith then looks backward: A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rod of ground... | |
 | Jack London - Literary Collections - 1982 - 1238 pages
...wise and was not, this I call a tragedy." XIV Hops and Hoppers 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 is made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...has seen the rise and fall of empires', said Mrs Luce. She was American Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56. Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. OLIVER GOLDSMITH To this couplet from 'The Deserted Village' Hilaire Belloc added the lines:... | |
 | Thomas Gallagher - History - 1987 - 372 pages
...band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave . . . Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay . . . —Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village •HE almost immediate starvation and distress... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - Social Science - 1989 - 416 pages
...landowners who wanted the land for sheepwalks to produce wool. Ill fares the land to hastening ills of prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...make them as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. It seems to me the Mennonites who have... | |
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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... 
