 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...  Translations in English verse from Ovid, Horace, Tacitus, etc., by W. Lee - Page 81by Publius Ovidius Naso, William Lee - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 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...her wholesome store. Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...breath 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...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more Mis best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 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 ; Tor him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more :... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. _ A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground inaintain'd its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gsve what life requir'd,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...has made ; But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome flore ; Jilft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His beft companions,... | |
 | William Marrat - 1816 - 632 pages
...there was ere England's griefs hegan, When every rood of ground maintained its mas, For him light lahor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, and gave no more;. His hest compamon* innoeence and health, And his hest richesj ignorance of wealth. Bat times are altered,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 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 store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | David Humphreys - Agriculture - 1816 - 48 pages
...more hear my voice. Perhaps its faint echo, re•sounding from these venerable walls, may yet be re* " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, " When every rood of ground maintained its man.*1 t GOLDSMITH. Tliis most estimable Author, whose talents for description have... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...pride, "V.'lit'H once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs hegan, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For...labour spread her wholesome store Just gave what life requlr'd, but gave no more; Ills hest companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
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