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
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 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 ? —... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1855 - 582 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 maintain'd its man : For him light Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 590 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 maintaiu'd its man ; For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 578 páginas
...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 ;... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 páginas
...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... | |
| Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 650 páginas
...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,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 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 requir'd,... | |
| 1826 - 812 páginas
...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... | |
| Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 páginas
...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... | |
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