 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 destroy'd, can never...  A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... - Pagina 64di Sir John Carr - 1805 - 480 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Nicholas Carlisle - 1828 - 352 pagine
...and men decay: Princes and Lords may nourish, 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. The Deserted Village. Repeated animadversions of The Commissioners will be found, on the demoralizing effects... | |
 | 1828 - 64 pagine
...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. * * * * Good heavens ! what sorrows gloom'd that parting day, That tore them from their native fields... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 456 pagine
...community— that, " ' 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.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community—the unpaid magistracy of the... | |
 | 1830 - 560 pagine
...community —that, ' Piinces 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.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community— the unpaid magistracy of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pagine
...and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or may fade : A breath can make them, as a breath has ' h i _ A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pagine
...and men decay ; Princei 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 of ground maintain'd its man.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagine
...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. time there was, ere England's griefs began, en every rood of ground maintain'd its man ;... | |
 | James Caulfield - 1832 - 152 pagine
...middle course is obviously the one we should pursue. " Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath hath made, But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." 82 Next in magnitude, and importance... | |
 | Karl August Varnhagen von Ense - 1833 - 640 pagine
...SJîanneê, п>е1феп bie SBelt je^t betrauert," bie bafelbfî angeführten SBerfe in Erinnerung: , . , , But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.) liefet Sujlanb nun, unter юе!фет ® allien feufjte, blieb unter unb паф ber Eroberung Ьигф... | |
 | Rev. G. Hansbrow - 1835 - 456 pagine
...and men decay ; 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied." By their usual clemency, our government has shewn they knew the value of our poor peasantry better... | |
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