 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
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...never be supplied. 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 required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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'ditsman ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; C2 For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : • His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...has made ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. ster, and avenge iur cause. But thanks be to Him that direct.s all .hin niaintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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, «Tust gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...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 , but gave no more : His best companions , innocence and health , And his best riches , ignorance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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,... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...GARDENING. The substance of a Paper read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...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... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 882 pages
...pleasures and its profit in the beautiful. We may even return to that golden age The Contemporary Review. "ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." J. Eaton Feasey. PEACE AND HER HYPOCRISIES. Mankind would have been a complete fool but for a few occasional... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...has made) But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...rood of ground maintained its man : For him light Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ; His best companions,... | |
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