 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 halaman
...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 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,... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 halaman
...GOLDSMITH. Goldsmith, in The Deserted Village, has the lines : " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A brt-ath can wuhe them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasanlry, their country's pride,... | |
 | J. Winfield Fretz - 1989 - 416 halaman
...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 and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, When once... | |
 | Frank McLynn - 1989 - 434 halaman
...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 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 halaman
...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 and rock-bound coast, (1. 1-2) 4 An fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When... | |
 | Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd - 1993 - 598 halaman
...sentimentally — what was lost when efficient agriculture was gained: /// fares the land, to fastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make ttiem, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 halaman
...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 and lords may flourish, or may fell, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry — their country's pride,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 halaman
...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 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... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 halaman
...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 and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's... | |
 | Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 halaman
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI 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... | |
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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... 
