 | Esq. John Williams - 1806 - 376 sider
...wealth accumulates, but men decay; " Princes, or Lords, may flourish, or may fade, . " A breath can make them, as a breath has made, " But a bold peasantry, their country's sword, " When once destroy'd can never be restor'd." Goldsmith's Deserted Village, altered by Darwin.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 sider
...scholars, soldiers, kings, unhonour'd, die. Princes and lords may florish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; 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... | |
 | Samuel William Ryley - 1808 - 340 sider
...opinion) savage people : — • .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, If once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." t • • • i The iron-worker, thus unexpectedly an* swer'd,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sider
...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 destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
 | 1809 - 402 sider
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Frinees and Lords may flourish or may fade ; A hrenth can make them as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once denlroy'd, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs hc' gan, '•. [man ;... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 sider
...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 destroy 'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 sider
...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 destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 sider
...wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can muke them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 sider
...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 he supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 sider
...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 destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
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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 never... 
