 | Lew Wallace, George Alfred Townsend - 1888 - 664 pàgines
...boast of kindness, and call upon his shivering victim to acknowledge a debt of gratitude. " 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them and a breath has made, But a bold... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 pàgines
...are flowers but fading seen, Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.— Lord Bacon. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. When wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made. But an honest... | |
 | 1903 - 658 pàgines
...which heroes were made, and there came to his mind the familiar couplet from Goldsmith: "111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." REMINISCENCES OF A REPORTER OF DECISIONS. BY GEORGE Fox TUCKER. I. WHILE the office of a Reporter of... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 pàgines
...Milton. And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place. The Land. Gay. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made, But an... | |
 | Samuel Robert Smith - 1892 - 198 pàgines
...by carriage one realizes how full of meaning are the words of Goldsmith, when he says — "111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." L/ittle or no account is any longer made of the beautiful rich bottom lands of the valley. Occasionally... | |
 | Lew Wallace, Murat Halstead - 1892 - 614 pàgines
...boast of kindness, and call upon his shivering victim to acknowledge a debt of gratitude. " 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them and a breath has made, But a bold... | |
 | Nemo - 1895 - 230 pàgines
...raise the wages of town labour, and so attract the poorer paid labour from the fields. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When 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... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1910 - 844 pàgines
...flat countries and low altitudes, and serve now but to illustrate the truth of the lines : 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. When wealth accumulates, and men decay. History shows that the comparative handful of Swiss mountaineers maintained a political integrity against... | |
 | William Wolfe Capes - 1901 - 390 pàgines
...must not therefore readily accept the pathetic phrases of Goldsmith's Deserted Pillage : 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But... | |
 | Murat Halstead - 1902 - 496 pàgines
...harbors, or be polished and preserved as elegant and costly toys, to illustrate that — "111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay." There was at least one unquestionable impropriety in the Navy Department and that the maintenance of... | |
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