 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - Election sermons - 1802 - 68 pages
...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.'* It is an intelligent, virtuous, free and extensive population, able by their talents and industry to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground mainlain'd its man; For him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1805 - 264 pages
...decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has madp : 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 of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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 of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...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 of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - Shetland (Scotland) - 1809 - 388 pages
...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 from their farms, it is not at all... | |
 | 1820 - 524 pages
...them as a breath has made : ' But a bold peasantry, their country 's-pride, ' When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " ' So say 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...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 of ground maintain' d its man;... | |
 | 1820 - 562 pages
...make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, . When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." \/ ' So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the com' munity — the unpaid magistracy of the country. I do not dread ' the inroads attempted to be... | |
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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 destroy 
