 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 lehte
...lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries : Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, i And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ;...England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him lignt labour spread her wholesome store. Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 lehte
...resided at the bottom of the waters. I remember in the place where I was a boy Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy' d, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 lehte
...land so vividly conjured up in Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll 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 supplied.39 Enclosure was a two-phased process. Between 1745 and 1780 the openfield Midland counties... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...things but hers; All but the blithe Hexameters. (1. 15-20) 3 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a thers 3 The breaking waves dashed high On a stern...rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 And the heavy night hung dark once destroyed, can never be supplied. (1. 51-56) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV; PoEL-3;... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 lehte
...paramount basis of a country's greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where...bold peasantry — their country's pride, — When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself, —... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 lehte
...poem flows, will be most clearly seen, by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 'A time there was, ere... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 lehte
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land, 50 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied, A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood... | |
 | Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 lehte
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 lehte
...plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a going out all over Europe; we shall not see them...what's a butterfly? At best. He's but a caterpillar, once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades... | |
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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... 
