Article: Smiling Land Foundation-Rockin' Big Night: Get Ready Toronto, Newfoundland Invades Again.

Article: Give us the money
The Spectator;  October 28, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... politicians the greatest possible sense of fulfilment, when it is given to them, as the poet has it, to scatter plenty o'er a smiling land and read their fortune in a nation's eyes; or as Thucydides has it, the secret satisfaction of being able to bribe the ...

Article: Wartime spirit made bleakest times bearable.
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  September 3, 2009 ;     691 words ... ... after three night-time Blitz attacks, which blew up schools and homes and caused raging fires. But the images of the smiling Land Girls, scores of children clambering over tanks outside Cardiff City Hall and families preparing their Anderson shelters ...

Article: Stories Of The Great West: Daniel Boone And The Founding Of ...
History of the World;      700+ words ... ... such obstinate fury that it grew to be called the dark and bloody ground. But when Boone first saw it, it was a fair and smiling land of groves and glades and running waters, where the open forest grew tall and beautiful, and where innumerable herds of ...

Article: [Alarums Sound] Baron Hardup of Hague Holdes Out Ye Begging ...
The Independent - London;  April 8, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Now you are gone, and we can rule ourselves. Cook: And what a sorry mess you've made of it. Rhodesia was a fair and smiling land. Zimbabwe is a foul, corrupted cesspit, And thou'rt but a rotten, dusky tyrant, Strutting on the dungheap like a cock ...

Article: A source for the Epitaph in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country ...
ANQ;  June 22, 2003 ;     693 words ... ... d no title"), actualized his potential for good government. In this regard, Gray's "To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes" (63-64) parallels Pope's "by all approv'd, / And prais'd ...