 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 Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 3941810Full view - About this book
 | 1812 - 1092 pages
...and contented — sensible of ihe blessings they enjoyed, and capable of defending them. Feeling that a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied, he deprecated all attempts which D 1 . Lwere were made to deprive them of their accustomed sports and... | |
 | 1807 - 770 pages
...His seat, where solitary sports are seen, . ,Vv,_^ Indignant spurns the cottage from the green— ^ But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, ^ When once destroyed, can never be supplied. After the acquisitions of foreign possessions, this surplus produce of grain gradually •eased to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 pages
...and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade) A breath can make them, at a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: I'M) a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When once destroyed, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere Kngland's griefs began, Whenev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | William Windham, Thomas Amyot - 1812 - 454 pages
...contented — sensible of the blessings they enjoyed, and capable of defending them. Feeling that . a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied, he deprecated all attempts which were made to deprive them of their accustomed sports and exercises.... | |
 | Thomas Amyot - 1812 - 216 pages
...and contented — sensible of the blessings they enjoyed, and capable of defending them. Feeling that a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied, he deprecated all attempts which were made to deprive them of their accustomed sports and exercises.... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - 1819 - 656 pages
...mentioned. It appears a plan to make general mendicity ! Landlords do not think of the poet's words : — " But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, " When once destroyed, can never be supplied ;" and appear rather indifferent to the depopulation of their estates ! Many great farmers too, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...men deca.v • 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. A time there was, ere England's gri«fs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...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 be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 530 pages
...Goldsmith :— « 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." Supposing a man intends to emigrate, he should contrast the good with the bad, and will then, from... | |
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