 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 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 he supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - Ireland - 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 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 he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every-rood of ground maintained its man; For him... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 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... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1824 - 876 pages
...place reliance, " Princes and lords may flourish and 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!" I will endeavour to carry your ideas to the very edifice of which Paine's wisdom enabled... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - Canada - 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made t But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's gneis bogan, When every rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 550 pages
...diminish the number of cottagers, for — " Princes and kings may flourish or may fade, A breath may make them as a breath hath made ; But a bold peasantry,...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." But to return more immediately to a general description of Rothbury parish ; the benevolent... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...of the poet : " Princes and lords way florish, 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." When a magistrate uses th» power intrusted to him for an improper purpose, when he acts... | |
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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... 
