 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...and on the least alarm utters a loud and painful note. • . Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. MCDIE. THIS mighty and majestic feature of nature inspires... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the landIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...made : 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... | |
 | Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...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...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supplied.39 Enclosure was a two-phased process. Between 1745 and 1780... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - Social Science - 1989 - 416 pages
...landowners who wanted the land for sheepwalks to produce wool. Ill fares the land to hastening ills of prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...make them as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. It seems to me the Mennonites who have... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...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 When once destroyed, can never be supplied. (1. 51-56) BeLS; EnRP; FaFP; LaA; NOEC; NoP; OAEL-1; OBSV;... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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...made; 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... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1995 - 458 pages
...greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...made; But a 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 - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...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... | |
 | Donald Winch - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...made. 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 - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...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, When 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 destroyed, can never... 
