 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pàgines
...blameable, as his aunts and uncles had always said he was. (GE) 6. 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 hath made. (G.) 7. If the knight touched his opponent's shield... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pàgines
...Line 13. The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. Line 29. 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 ;l But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 498 pàgines
...train " sbttll " usurp this land, and dispossess the iwain." " 111 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 nude ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Frédéric Le Play, Alexis Delaire - 1875 - 418 pàgines
...sauraient remplacer une vieille et solide race de paysans. « 111 fares the land , to hastening ills a prey , « Where wealth accumulates , and men decay : « Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; « A brealh can make them, as a breath bas niade, « Buta bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1876 - 56 pàgines
...; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. 50 I11 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade— A breath can make them, as a breath has made : solitary in its habits, and haunting swamps... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pàgines
...spoiler's hand, 50 Far, far away, thy children leave the land. 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 : 55 But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pàgines
...sacred and so sweet. — Lynch. 2681. PEASANTS. ILL fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, \Vhere e presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide : Unchanged thr fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath lias made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pàgines
...the keen air, and carols as he goes. GOLDSMITH : Traveller. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning 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: lint a bold peasantry-, their country's pride,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1893 - 882 pàgines
...Village," and although so often quoted, I will repeat here: " Hard fares the land, to wasting ills a prey — Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, its country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Now, it is an historical fact, that... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 pàgines
...spoiler's hand, so Far, far away thy children leave the laud. 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 — 55 But a bold peasantry, their country's... | |
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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 ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can... 
