 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 lehte
...spoiler's hand, Par, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...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... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 lehte
...true to the feelings of the heart, and our best associations. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 lehte
...spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land.. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay! Princes...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 lehte
...spoiler's hand, Tar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...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... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 lehte
...described, than in the words of Goldsmith : " 111 fares the land,, to hast'ning ills a prey, While wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords...pride,. When once destroy'd can never be supplied." coast there are various kinds of sea-weeds, or wrack, as it is called, which were, till lately, used... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 lehte
...Italy, Terra potent armis atque ubere glebes. LORD BACON. * " III fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " A time there was, ere England's... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 810 lehte
...expressed by an ingenious poet whom Ireland claims as her own : 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay, Princes...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If once destroy'd can never be supply'd. Goldsmith's Deserted Pillage. DUBLIN. — Mr. Luke White,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 lehte
...spoiler';. hand, Par, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'r.ing ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...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;... | |
 | 1814 - 310 lehte
...thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow sounding bittern guards its nest : Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; Tor him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 lehte
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...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... | |
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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: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never... 
