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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... "
English Poems: The restoration and the eighteenth century (1660-1800) - Page 283
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

1845 - 614 pages
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made) But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made ; 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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...wall . And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made ; 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...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 816 pages
...Goldsmith — ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, •Where wealth accumulates and тол decay ! — Princes and lords may flourish or may...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can петег Ъ* supplied.' " The Cln-ematiels always represent an increase...
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Evelyn Stuart, or, Right versus might, by Adrian

Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 pages
...to the regeneration of the people, and strive to promote the welfare of his fellow-men. CHAPTER XIV. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. DESERTED VILLAGE. AFTER Arbridge had quitted the labourer's...
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoilers hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every...
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The Emigrant: A Tale of Australia

W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 pages
...soil is left in his squalidness, his helplessness, his want. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once neglected, ne'er can be supplied." Let the sigh that the expatriated tiller of the soil heaved...
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The gift book of English poetry

English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every...
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 40 Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every...
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The revelations of an orderly, an attempt to expose abuses in the mofussil ...

Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 pages
...Raj is a paternal and fostering Raj for the poor ryots ! " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Princes...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL...
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