the great sacrifice(die for one's country)

have a bumper harvest(a golden harvest)

prince's descendant

pleasing to the ear

go smoothly everywhere(carry all before one; all water runs to one's mill)

go astray

leadership rendered ineffectual by recalcitrant subordinates

materialism

have one's own way

disdain worldly affairs

bedfast(take to one's bed)

remarkably like the true(speaking likeness)

in low spirits

rack one's brains

change of the seasons

Everything will be fine.

fit to a hair

make much ado about nothing(create problems where none exists)

act on one's own will

with a light heart(be as happy as a lark; light; be free from care; carefree)