 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - Страниц: 332
...cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. * The bittern may be said to be the bird of desolation : "the bittern shall dwell there" is the final... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - Страниц: 922
...with unmingled satisfaction. In his deliberate judgment, " III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish or may fad» ; A BREATU can make them, as a breath has mad» But a BOLD PEASANTHY, their country' i pride,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - Страниц: 426
...cries ; Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from 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... | |
 | M. W. Beresford, John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph, J. K. S. Joseph - 1979 - Страниц: 320
...Northamptonshire families, 1540-1649. Northants. Rec. Soc. xix (1956). II. DISSOLUTION BY RETREAT 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; . . . But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1981 - Страниц: 102
...armed services and national security committees. In closing, sir, "111 fares the land, to hasty ills of prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish and fade; a breath can make them as a breath has made; but a bold leader, its country's pride, when... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - Страниц: 344
...thy greed; One only master grasps the whole domain And half a tillage stints thy smiling pain. . . . And trembling shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Goldsmith then looks backward: A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rod of ground... | |
 | Jack London - 1982 - Страниц: 1238
...wise and was not, this I call a tragedy." XIV Hops and Hoppers 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 is made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 1982 - Страниц: 376
...has seen the rise and fall of empires', said Mrs Luce. She was American Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56. Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. OLIVER GOLDSMITH To this couplet from 'The Deserted Village' Hilaire Belloc added the lines:... | |
 | Thomas Gallagher - 1987 - Страниц: 372
...band; And while he sinks, without one arm to save, The country blooms— a garden and a grave . . . Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay . . . —Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village •HE almost immediate starvation and distress... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - 1989 - Страниц: 416
...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... | |
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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... 
