 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...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 440edited by - 1770Full view - About this book
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 pages
...has made; But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, 55 When once deftroyed, can never be fupplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juftgave what life required, but gave no more: 50 His beft companions, innocence and health ; And his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 pages
...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 ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, \Vhen once deftroy'd, can never be (applied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefomc (lore ; Juft gave what life retjuir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1802 - 130 pages
...never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more i His bed companions, innocence and health, And his beft riches, ignorance... | |
 | 1857 - 628 pages
...foolish consequences than that to which Goldsmith gave new wings when he sent forth the assertion — ' A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man.' [Because the cultivation of land is certainly the most primitive, and is imagined, especially by those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...has made : K 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 - 1803 - 366 pages
...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 ftore, luft gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...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 mainlain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...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 labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what lite rcquir'd, but... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...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...of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome storey Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence... | |
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