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" 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... "
Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets - Page 250
by John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 386 pages
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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 maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : 1 Where] ' Wealth in all...
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The Miscellaneous Works of O.G.: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His ...

Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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 maintain'ditsman ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but...
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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 maintain'd its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, «Tust gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...has made ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. ster, and avenge iur cause. But thanks be to Him that direct.s all .hin niaintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 maintain' d its man ; For him light Laboufspread her wholesomestore, Just gave what life requir'd,...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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 maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence...
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An essay on farms of industry, and an essay on cottage allotments, or field ...

John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...GARDENING. The substance of a Paper read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society. 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,...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 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...rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more ; His best companions,...
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The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America: Consisting of Literary Gems and ...

English literature - 1845 - 614 pages
...has made) But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, con 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,...
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The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster]., Volumes 1-2

Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...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...
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