| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pągines
...wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...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 ev'ry rood... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 pągines
...wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplv'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1817 - 604 pągines
...encourage them to abandon their native soil. Alas I • • "III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, - . Where wealth accumulates, and men decay....them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In these verses, Sir, is much of sound... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pągines
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry—their country's pride— When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pągines
...wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pągines
...spoiler's handFar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prry, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once ctestroy'd,can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 488 pągines
...wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
| 1820 - 590 pągines
...which the eye of a patriot can rest with unmingled »atisfaction. In his deliberate judgment ; "HI fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." It is an intelligent, virtuous, free and extensh ipuhition, able by their talents auJ industry to obtain... | |
| 1820 - 344 pągines
...universally acknowledged remedy for an irremedible evil. " 111 fares the land," says my favourite poet, " to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates,...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere Scotland's ' griefs began, When every roo4 of ground maintain'd its man ; For... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pągines
...wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where...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... | |
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