 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...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Стр. 441авторы: Henry George Bohn - 1881 - Страниц: 715Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - Страниц: 332
...and on the least alarm utters a loud and painful note. • . Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. MCDIE. THIS mighty and majestic feature of nature inspires the beholder with a feeling of immensity... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - Страниц: 348
...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...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him... | |
 | Book - 1854 - Страниц: 496
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - Страниц: 434
...land so vividly conjured up in Goldsmith's Deserted Village.36 1ll fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes...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 - 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Страниц: 1172
...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;... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - Страниц: 458
...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, —... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - Страниц: 936
...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... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - Страниц: 420
...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 - Страниц: 452
...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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