 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 páginas
...wistful recollection of a vanished order, as witness this couplet from Goldsmith's Deserted Village: "A time there was, ere England's griefs began / When every rood of ground maintained its man." 56 The glorious "was" inevitably yields to a "now" of decadence and falling away: "But now the sounds... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 páginas
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 | Terence Kealey - 1996 - 400 páginas
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 | Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed - 1997 - 296 páginas
...Village" (1770), also bemoaned the urbanization of England and similarly posited a rural Golden Age: A time there was 'ere England's griefs began, When every rood of land maintained its man. . . But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess... | |
 | Chaim David Mazoff - 1998 - 192 páginas
...feet of "trade": 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...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... | |
 | James S. Taylor - 1998 - 224 páginas
...had 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...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... | |
 | Steven Earnshaw - 2000 - 312 páginas
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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... 
