| Anne Kent - 1846 - 942 páginas
...to the regeneration of the people, and strive to promote the welfare of his fellow-men. CHAPTER XIV. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. DESERTED VILLAGE. AFTER Arbridge had quitted the labourer's wretched dwelling, the poor woman remained,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 páginas
...ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoilers hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill...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 5 For him... | |
| W. H. Leigh - 1847 - 244 páginas
...soil is left in his squalidness, his helplessness, his want. " 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 neglected, ne'er can be supplied." Let the sigh that the expatriated tiller of the soil heaved... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood... | |
| George Croly - 1849 - 416 páginas
...smiling plain ; No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...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... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 páginas
...the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 40 Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares...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 ; 5 For... | |
| 1849 - 634 páginas
...Raj is a paternal and ' fostering Raj for the poor ryots !" ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, ' Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; '...pride, ' When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In several chapters our hero describes, in an historical manner, the survey, and other operations in... | |
| Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 páginas
...Raj is a paternal and fostering Raj for the poor ryots ! " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON. THESE is an anomalous kind of court... | |
| Thomas Bloomer Balch - 1850 - 240 páginas
...their retainers. Our own deliverance from a foreign yoke was effected by the yeomanry of our country. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture is an honorable pursuit. Kings have desired... | |
| A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 páginas
...weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). ILL 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rood... | |
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