 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
 | 1845 - 614 páginas
...has made) But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, con never be supplied. : For him light Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ;... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 788 páginas
...circumstances contributed to prevent their being that time was of which they had often heard — that time " ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ;" but he believed that previous to the 16th century all the peasantry drew portions of their maintenance... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 páginas
...obsequia but funeral attendance! And surely he is a bad philosopher and a worse historian who says, " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain *d its man." There never was any such time ; and if ever there should be, we who believe that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 páginas
...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 every rood of ground maintained its man 5 For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ;... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...following verbs : — . Bid, Bite, Choose, Clothe, Do, Forsake, Go, Let, Mow, Sit, Write. 7. Parse " A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." 8. Define the following words of like meaning : — Accent, Emphasis. Language, Dialect. Doubt, Suspense.... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 páginas
...may fade ; 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 ; 5 For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more... | |
 | 1871 - 732 páginas
...economy of the paragraph of The Deserted 1'illaye has often been derided, which commences thus : — " 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 whnt life required, but gave no more."... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 páginas
...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 every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ;... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 páginas
...produce of their fields for the supply of all needful wants, and taking little thought for the morrow. " A time there was, 'ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him i ight labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requited,... | |
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