 | 1807 - Počet stránok 770
...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 •eased to... | |
 | 1813 - Počet stránok 1082
...not, it is true, wish hem to become statesmen or philosophers : — he deVircd to see thtm honest, active, chearful and contented — sensible of the...peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed', с an never be supplied, were made to deprive them of their accustomed sports and exercises. From the... | |
 | John Bernard Trotter - 1819 - Počet stránok 656
...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 too, and... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - Počet stránok 530
...« 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 then, from... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1824 - Počet stránok 876
..." 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 him to lay... | |
 | Catherine George Ward - 1824 - Počet stránok 720
...decay: Princes >n<i Lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has Bade. Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." GOLDBMIVH. NO sooner was the name of Benvolio pronounced, by Sir Walter l)e Ruthen, than an instantaneous... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Počet stránok 510
...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 man ; For him... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - Počet stránok 538
...volume, upon the " True Greatness of " Kingdoms and States." See Goldsmith's Deserted Village. " A bold peasantry their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." &c. NOTE I. Referring to page 5:!. See, in this volume, page i.'!ft. See also in the preface to this... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - Počet stránok 440
...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 supplied. The poet, again personified in the traveller, returns from his wanderings in distant countries to the... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - 1825 - Počet stránok 550
..." 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 bequests... | |
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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... 
