 | Henry Giles - English literature - 1851 - 322 pages
...his impassioned aspiration, has nothing finer than this : " Hard fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." On Goldsmith's poetry the judgment of the literary and the laity seem unanimous ; both equally approve,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...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...store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: 60 His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1995 - 458 pages
...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...pride, — When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself, — "At night returning, every labor sped, He... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...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 - History - 1996 - 452 pages
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings, force the poor to emigrate abroad or... | |
 | Nancy Jack Todd - Science - 1997 - 350 pages
...prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes or lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Loss of knowledge and skills is now a big problem in our universities, and no subject is in greater... | |
 | James S. Taylor - Education - 1998 - 224 pages
...and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath had made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,...store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. I would insist... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades like these. A youth of labour with an age... | |
 | Chaim David Mazoff - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 192 pages
...feet of "trade": 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are... | |
 | Howard Davis - Architecture - 2006 - 410 pages
...in the poem "Sweet Auburn," by Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74): 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The nucleated English village disappeared long ago as a unified social and economic entity. This is... | |
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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... 
