 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...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. Ill fares the laud, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 500 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...the long grass o'ertops the tnouhi'ring wall, And, trembling, shrinking Irene the spoiler's handFar, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prry, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...all, , And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey ; Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and lords may flourish or may... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 290 pages
...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. 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 - 1822 - 426 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1064 pages
...ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall; And, trembling, shrmking from the spoiler's e hero with the hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; . Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 314 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, 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... | |
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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 be supplied. 
