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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 destroyed, can never... "
The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on ... - Page 187
by Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 581 pages
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The Farmer's Magazine

514 pages
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The Book of Familiar Quotations: Being a Collection of Popular Extracts and ...

1871 - 340 pages
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In jouwerkoerke fol Frysk griemank, ree makke in de Friesen oonbean

Rinse Posthumus - 1836 - 84 pages
...OOMKENS, w>> Boekforkeaper , Boek- in Stiendrukker . 1856. Ill 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 destroy' d , can never be supplied. Vut O. GOLDSMITHS gedicht , the deserted village. It Franse...
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British Farmer's Magazine, Volume 1

1837 - 530 pages
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Mr. Slacker's remedy for the poverty of the " peasantry" is proper encouragement:— Mr. Blacker is...
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The picaroon, by the author of 'Makanna'.

Picaroon - 1837 - 958 pages
...understanding, as pass the broken traces of a dream. CHAPTER X. " 111 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." GOLDSMITH. AMONG the green delights of Hagglestone's garden,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...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...rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions,...
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De Vrije Fries, Volume 9

1862 - 464 pages
...Posthumus overgenomen en vertaald [Jouwerkoerke , pag. 3]: „ 111 fares the land, to hastening ilLs a prey, „ Where wealth accumulates and men decay....a breath has made; „ But a bold peasantry, their countrys pride, „ When once destroyed can never be supplied. De Romeinen, het grootste volk dat op...
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The Farmers' Register, A Monthly Publication, Devoted to the Improvement of ...

Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 pages
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Mr. Blacker is determined they shall not be destroyed. He has a better method of curing the poverty...
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The Farmers' Register, Volume 6

Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 pages
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes...peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can ne ver be supplied." Mr. Blacker is determined they shall not be destroyed. He has a better method...
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied, A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood...
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