 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...  The Oxford examiner, ed. by M.W.I. Shilleto - Page 6edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground malntain'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 and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...made ; But a bold peasantry, their eountry's pride, • When onee destroy'd, ean never be supply'd. ek ; This night his treasur'd heaps he meant to steal, And what a fund maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...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 mamtain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1827 - 892 pages
...remem bers, that A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life reqnirM, but gave to mon : His best companion«, innocence and health : And his best riches, ignorai»... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...remembers, that A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When ev'ry rood of ground maiotain'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 and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles - Java (Indonesia) - 1830 - 600 pages
...individual industry. ' A time there was, ere England's griefs began, ' When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; ' For him light labour spread her wholesome store, ' Just gave what life requir'd, and gave no more : ' His best companions, innocence and health ; ' And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. P maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. 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, Jast gave what life requirM, but... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...supply'd. time there was, ere England's griefs began, en every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; A Whem For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
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