 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...  Walks Through Ireland in the Years 1812, 1814, and 1817: Described in a ... - Pàgina 219per John Bernard Trotter - 1819 - 599 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1807 - 770 pàgines
...His seat, where solitary sports are seen, . ,Vv,_^ Indignant spurns the cottage from the green— ^ But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, ^ When once destroyed, can never be supplied. After the acquisitions of foreign possessions, this surplus produce of grain gradually •eased to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pàgines
...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 he supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | William Windham, Thomas Amyot - 1812 - 454 pàgines
...contented — sensible of the blessings they enjoyed, and capable of defending them. Feeling that . a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied, he deprecated all attempts which were made to deprive them of their accustomed sports and exercises.... | |
 | Thomas Amyot - 1812 - 216 pàgines
...contented — sensible of the blessings they enjoyed, and capable of defending them. Feeling that a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied, he deprecated all attempts which were made to deprive them of their accustomed sports and exercises.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pàgines
...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 be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pàgines
...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 he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every-rood of ground maintained its... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pàgines
...decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made t But a bold peasantry, their 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 him... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 pàgines
...— « 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 be supplied." Supposing a man intends to emigrate, he should contrast the good with the bad, and will then, from... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1824 - 876 pàgines
...reliance, " Princes and lords may flourish and 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 be supplied!" I will endeavour to carry your ideas to the very edifice of which Paine's wisdom enabled him to lay... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - 720 pàgines
...decay: Princes >n<i Lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has Bade. Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." GOLDBMIVH. NO sooner was the name of Benvolio pronounced, by Sir Walter l)e Ruthen, than an instantaneous... | |
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