 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...  Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution - Página 82por John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 424 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 páginas
...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 be supplied. The poet, again personified in the traveller, returns from his wanderings in distant countries to the... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - 1825 - 550 páginas
..." Princes and kings may flourish or may fade, A breath may make them as a breath hath made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." But to return more immediately to a general description of Rothbury parish ; the benevolent bequests... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1827 - 188 páginas
..." Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." DESERTED VILLAGF * ' - '' Killarney, June 1. Delightful scenery — nothing like it to be seen in England... | |
 | 1827 - 152 páginas
...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 be supplied, GO£DSMITH. COLCHESTER: PRINTED AND SOLD BY SWINBORNE AND WALTER; SOLD ALSO BY C. AND J. RIVINGTON,... | |
 | 1831 - 32 páginas
...' Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But u bold Peasantry their Country's pride. When once destroyed can never be supplied-.' I will now assert without fear of contradiction, that the men we draw from Ireland totrecruiting our... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 páginas
...— 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 be supplied. Then such sports, the RUSTIC SPORTS, as we are about to describe, we trust will always be supported... | |
 | Christopher Edward Lefroy - 1834 - 20 páginas
...nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius." CICERO. • A bold peasantry, their country's pride, " When once destroyed, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. LONDON: HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILL\, 1834. • Price Sixpence. LETTER, &c. WESTHAM, near... | |
 | 1836 - 784 páginas
...decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath unmakes them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. (To be continued.) SYMPATHY, FRIENDSHIP, AND LOVE. WHEN eld chaos was stripped of his robe of night,... | |
 | 1837 - 530 páginas
...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 be supplied." Mr. Slacker's remedy for the poverty of the " peasantry" is proper encouragement:— Mr. Blacker is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 páginas
...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 once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him... | |
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