 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 never...  Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners, in Dublin, and the North of ... - Pàgina 280per John Gamble - 1826 - 355 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1867 - 964 pàgines
..."Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes aud loráVí may flourish or may /ode; A BREATH con make them, as a breath has made; But a BOLD PEASANTRY, their country's pride, When once DESTBOTÏD, can NEVER be siálica1." It is an intelligent, virtuous, free, and extensive population,... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pàgines
...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,...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pàgines
...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 be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - 68 pàgines
..."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 be supplied.'* It is an intelligent, virtuous, free and extensive population,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pàgines
...decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : K 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 rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1804 - 342 pàgines
...wealth accumulates, and men decay ; ff Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, " A breath can make them as a breath has made ; " But a bold peasantry,...country's pride, •" When once destroy'd, can never de supplied." GOLDSMITH. 5 And Irave a thousand deaths of various farm. — P. 56. PERHAPS it is none... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pàgines
...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 be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pàgines
...no oppression : Princes and Lords may Sourish 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. The hospitality of the numerous and highly respectable famity of the De Conincks, the principal merchants... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 pàgines
...no oppression : Princes and Lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breatk hath made ; But a bold Peasantry, their Country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. The hospitality of the numerous and highly respectable family of the De Conincks, the principal... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pàgines
...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 be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
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