...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 Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,...

...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 maintaiu'd its man ; For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,...

...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied . ealed. At onoe arrayed ; For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ;...

...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. eir own accord. 2 Orpheus, see his story, p. 235. lira I (Oh far WINTER. A PIHDIUC ita man ; For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no...

...between the WORDS of the British missionary, and the DEEDS of the British soldier. Poetry has said — " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man." But plain prose has not condescended to enlighten us in relation to that fact,...

...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 requir'd,...

...of a poet, and such a poet as Goldsmith? This " dreamer" on the state of his country not only says " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man;" which is as glaring a falsehood as ever was put upon paper: but < " that states, of native strength...

...happy and the ruined village. I do not mean the occasional gesture, in the style of 'Oh wassel days'. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rood of ground maintain'd its man. I mean the apparent description of a contemporary social process, which takes the...

...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 labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more :...

...decay; . . . 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;. . . OLIVEK GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village In the two centuries following Domesday...