 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 destroy'd, can never...  Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ... - Page 248by English poets - 1862Full view - About this book
 | 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON.... | |
 | 1849 - 634 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; '...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, ' When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In several chapters our hero describes, in an historical manner,... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). ILL fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...ere England's griefs began When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Thomas Bloomer Balch - 1850 - 240 pages
...their retainers. Our own deliverance from a foreign yoke was effected by the yeomanry of our country. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture... | |
 | 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...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily flowing from an augmentation... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 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 onco destroy'd, can never be supplied.'" The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...causeth to err, (Prov. xix. 27.) Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, . Where wealth accuumlates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never De supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make, too much... | |
 | 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, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;f But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; * [" Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers,... | |
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