 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...  Fraser's Magazine - Página 3061880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 páginas
...has made; But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deflroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 páginas
...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, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 páginas
...has made: Bnt a bold peasantry, their conntry's pride. When once destroy 'it, can never be snpplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of gronnd maintain'd its man ; For him light Labonr spread her wholesome store, Jnst gave what life reqnir'd,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 páginas
...When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " 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, but gave no more :... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 páginas
...breath 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, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | 1814 - 310 páginas
...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 ; Tor him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. _ A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground inaintain'd its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gsve what life requir'd,... | |
 | David Humphreys - 1816 - 48 páginas
...more hear my voice. Perhaps its faint echo, re•sounding from these venerable walls, may yet be re* " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, " When every rood of ground maintained its man.*1 t GOLDSMITH. Tliis most estimable Author, whose talents for description have rarely been excelled,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 páginas
...has made ; But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome flore ; Jilft gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | 1817 - 696 páginas
...every principle of sound political economy, and in every thing commendable, except as above admitted. " A time there was, 'ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome storef Just give what life required, and gave no more;... | |
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