 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
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 519 páginas
...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, but gave no more... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852
...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,... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 192 páginas
...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, but gave no more :... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1853
...ocean, so will man, if he have genius, pass through the multitude, and find his proper level. CHAPTER X. 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 :... | |
 | George Croly (Rev., ed) - 1854
...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 ;... | |
 | 1854
...and in England and Wales one to two acres : — not yet a crowded population. Goldsmith says — ' A time there was ere England's griefs began When every rood of ground maintained its man.' Were proper use made of the waste of our towns, and garden farining, and cultivation of the bogs and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...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 maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854
...in the poem which would wvra to indicate that the description was intended for an English village : A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd ita man. ** The scene of his celebrated comedy, The Mistakes of a Night* was laid in the... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 448 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 ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 754 páginas
...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 venerable ? —... | |
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