 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
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 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 mamtain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...Deserted Village," in which lie so pathclicallv lamented Hie sad alteration there was from the time "ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man/' he was not, we suspect, aware that these real or imaginary "griefs" were of such long standing as the... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1827 - 892 pages
...private distress — and he remem bers, that 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 reqnirM, but gave to mon : His best companion«, innocence and health : And his best riches, ignorai»... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 452 pages
...private distress — and he remembers, that A time there was. ere England's griefs be^an. When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man: For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gate what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...remembers, that A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When ev'ry rood of ground maiotain'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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. P but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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...man. For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Jast gave what life requirM, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health ; And his... | |
 | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles - Java (Indonesia) - 1830 - 622 pages
...family and employ his individual industry. ' A time there was, ere England's griefs began, ' When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; ' For him light...spread her wholesome store, ' Just gave what life requir'd, and gave no more : ' His best companions, innocence and health ; ' An.d his best riches,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...supply'd. time there was, ere England's griefs began, en every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; A Whem 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 Booth - English language - 1831 - 408 pages
...the following: 1. Substituting the CA.VSE for the EFFECT. Thus, the land is taken for its produce: " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man." 2. Substituting the EFFwrforthe CAUSE. Thus, Junius asks: " Can grey hairs make folly venerable?" where... | |
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