 | 1806 - 330 pages
...never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome...no more. His best companions, innocence and health ; Aiid his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the... | |
 | 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 - 1807 - 498 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 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...its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome storey Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health,... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd his man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store,...: His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...has made; But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deflroy'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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 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 life requir'd,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...lla»4nadc : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'^, can never be supplied. So humble, lie has knock'd at Tiiald's door, inaintain'd its man; For him lignt labor spread her wholesome store ; Just gave what life rcquir'd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...never be supply'd. A time there was, ere Kngland's griefs began, Whenev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome...more: His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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 labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
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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... 
