 | Henry Augustus Boardman - 1853 - 434 psl.
...depends, and which have usually found their most genial home among the cultivators of the soil. " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, AVhen once destroyed, can never be supply'd." We are not in immediate danger, certainly, from this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 psl.
...spoiler's hand. Far, far away thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 8 Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : * Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. I A time there was, ere England's griefa began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 psl.
...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 destroyed, can never be supplied. — A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 psl.
...commons led to the flight from the land so vividly conjured up in Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...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... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - 1989 - 416 psl.
...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 - 1992 - 1172 psl.
...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;... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 psl.
...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... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 psl.
...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...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 psl.
...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 - 1996 - 452 psl.
...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,... | |
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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... 
