 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,,...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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, 1-ar, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...cries; Sank are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand. Far far away thy children leave the land. : - 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes... | |
 | Edward Nares - Precedence - 1824 - 424 pages
...find amongst his characters the old Country 'Squire himself. 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 : * My first Edition had scarcely been published... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1825 - 160 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand....children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ilia a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the mould'ring wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy ehildren motion pleasant be. Why do we preeious ointments show'r, Nobler wines why aeeumulates, and men deeay ; Prinees and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath ean make them, as... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand....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... | |
 | Nicholas Carlisle - Charities - 1828 - 352 pages
...knowing that if their vices bring them into utter want, they must be maintained in idleness at last 3 HI fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth...accumulates, and men decay: Princes and Lords may nourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold Peasantry, their Country's... | |
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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... 
