 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pàgines
...has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him light Labour spread her wholesome store* Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pàgines
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pàgines
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pàgines
...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 55 When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...ground maintained its man ; For him, light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave whut life required, but gave no more ; to His best companions,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1853 - 322 pàgines
...ocean, so will man, if he have genius, pass through the multitude, and find his proper level. CHAPTER X. A time there was ere England's griefs began, When...of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pàgines
...made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pàgines
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...of ground maintained its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ; GOLDSMITH. His best companions,... | |
 | 1854 - 974 pàgines
...and in England and Wales one to two acres : — not yet a crowded population. Goldsmith says — ' A time there was ere England's griefs began When every rood of ground maintained its man.' Were proper use made of the waste of our towns, and garden farining, and cultivation of the bogs and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pàgines
...in the poem which would wvra to indicate that the description was intended for an English village : A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd ita man. ** The scene of his celebrated comedy, The Mistakes of a Night* was laid in the... | |
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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. A time there was, ere England's... 
