 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...  The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Poems. Dramas. Criticism ... - Sayfa 55Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior tarafından - 1837Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 sayfa
...make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's...labour Spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1823 - 386 sayfa
...make them as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'<! can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's...began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man, E2 For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life reqnir'd, but gave no more.... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 sayfa
...bead.— Sussex Advertiser. Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began,...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life reqair'd, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sayfa
...country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's gneis bogan, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For...Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more; His beet companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1824 - 908 sayfa
...to support his family on the produce of his little farm. Do you recollect Goldsmith's lines ? — " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, " When every rood of ground maintain'd its man: " But now, alas ! " Along the lawn where scatter'd hamlets rose, " Unwieldy wealth and cumb'rous pomp... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 sayfa
...country : " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied." What is the peasantry of a nation that can only boast of physical strength ? — Without education... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 sayfa
...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...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sayfa
...made ; But a bold peasantry, their eountry's pride, • When onee destroy'd, ean never be supply'd. ek ; This night his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal,...Depart in peaee, resign, and sin no more. On sounding- eompanions, innoeenee and health, And his best riehes, ignoranee of wealth. But times are alter'd ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 sayfa
...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...A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground malntain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store ; Just gave... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 160 sayfa
...decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade , A breath can make them, as a breath has ina.de : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When...supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, \Vhen ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just... | |
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