 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 páginas
...never be supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every root! 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 and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | C. Wayth - 1845 - 84 páginas
...first possession of the wickets. NOTE 7, PAGE 23. " Gave just enough for all, but gave no more." " For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more." GOIBSMITH. NOTE 8, PAGE 29. "Now come still evening on." — PARADISE... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 788 páginas
...circumstances contributed to prevent their being that time was of which they had often heard — that time " ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ;" but he believed that previous to the 16th century all the peasantry drew portions of their maintenance... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 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 maintained its man 5 For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ;... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...following verbs : — . Bid, Bite, Choose, Clothe, Do, Forsake, Go, Let, Mow, Sit, Write. 7. Parse " A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." 8. Define the following words of like meaning : — Accent, Emphasis. Language, Dialect. Doubt, Suspense.... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...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 labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation - 1978 - 412 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...rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions,... | |
 | M. W. Beresford, John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph, J. K. S. Joseph - 1979 - 320 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1981 - 248 páginas
...source of corruption: A time there was, ere England's grief began, When every rod of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more; His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
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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... 
