 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 (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 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...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : 1 Where] ' Wealth in all commercial stflBs found to accumulate ; the very... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 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...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : * Where] ' Wealth in all commercial states is found to accumulate ; the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every root! of ground maintained its man; Por d, that the industrious poor have good encouragement there, perhaps better but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light...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.... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man ; C2 For him light 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 of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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'ditsman ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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...; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, «Tust gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health. And his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 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 light Laboufspread her wholesomestore, Just gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...has made ; Eut a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. ster, and avenge iur cause. But thanks be to Him that direct.s all .hin niaintain'd its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 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...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.... | |
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