 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 55 When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 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 whut life required,... | |
 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1853 - 322 pages
...ocean, so will man, if he have genius, pass through the multitude, and find his proper level. CHAPTER X. 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 required,... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...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 ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 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 lignt labour spread her wholesome store. Just gave what life required, but gave no more : > v/*His... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...in the poem which would wvra to indicate that the description was intended for an English village : A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd ita man. ** The scene of his celebrated comedy, The Mistakes of a Night* was laid in the town of Ardagb,... | |
 | 1826 - 812 pages
...of a poet, and such a poet as Goldsmith? This " dreamer" on the state of his country not only says " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man;" which is as glaring a falsehood as ever was put upon paper: but < " that states,... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 pages
...happy and the ruined village. I do not mean the occasional gesture, in the style of 'Oh wassel days'. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rood of ground maintain'd its man. I mean the apparent description of a contemporary social process, which takes the poem beyond the relatively... | |
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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... 
