 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 ページ
...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... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 ページ
...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,...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 ページ
...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... | |
 | Thomas Garnett - 1811 - 402 ページ
...While 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,...pride,. When once destroy'd can never be supplied." coast there are various kinds of sea-weeds, or wrack, as it is called, which were, till lately, used... | |
 | 1820 - 524 ページ
...; ' 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.' " ' So...I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the coratnunity — the unpaid magistracy of the country. — 1 do not dread the inroads attempted to be... | |
 | William Butler - 1811 - 548 ページ
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold PEASANTRY, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. GOLDSMITH. It has been juftly remarked, that farmers, manufacturers,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 ページ
...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,...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " A time there was, ere England's... | |
 | Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 810 ページ
...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, If once destroy'd can never be supply'd. Goldsmith's Deserted Pillage. DUBLIN. — Mr. Luke White,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 ページ
...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,...country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 904 ページ
...decay: Prince and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breith can make them as a breath has made; b-: a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When, once destroy'd, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. PEASANTRY.*. Peasants; rustics; countjjpeepV Í Locke). PE.VSCOD. PSA'SHELL.J. (pfa.roaand... | |
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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... 
