 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 pàgines
...realize the picture which one of our poets drew of England in olden time; it is Goldsmith that says : " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." That distich speaks of prosperity without at all dealing in hyperbole. What is... | |
 | 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...of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence... | |
 | 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...of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence... | |
 | 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...of ground maintain'd its man : For him light Labour spread her wholesome store* Just gave what life required, but gave no more; His best companions, innocence... | |
 | 1851 - 796 pàgines
...between the worms of the British missionary, and the DEEDS of the British soldier. Poetry has said, "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." But plain prose has not condescended to enlighten us in relation to that fact,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pàgines
...relation is always that of causes, effects, or adjuncts. 1. Substituting the cause for the effect : A. time there was, ere England's Griefs began, When every rood of ground, maintained its man. — GOLDSMITH. 2. Substituting the effect for the cause : Can gray hairs make folly... | |
 | 1851 - 796 pàgines
...between the WORDS of the British missionary, and the DKEDS of the British soldier. Poetry has said, " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." But plain prose has not condescended to enlighten us in relation to that fact,... | |
 | 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...of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence... | |
 | 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 every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him, light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave whut life required,... | |
 | 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 every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
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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... 
