 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...GARDENING. The substance of a Paper read before the West-Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...more ; His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.—GOLDSMITH. WHOEVER is in the habit of reading " The Labourers'... | |
 | 1917 - 882 pages
...pleasures and its profit in the beautiful. We may even return to that golden age The Contemporary Review. "ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." J. Eaton Feasey. PEACE AND HER HYPOCRISIES. Mankind would have been a complete fool but for a few occasional... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 276 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 614 pages
...has made) But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, con never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...rood of ground maintained its man : For him light Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ; His best companions,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...never be supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every root! 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 and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | C. Wayth - 1845 - 84 pages
...first possession of the wickets. NOTE 7, PAGE 23. " Gave just enough for all, but gave no more." " For him light Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more." GOIBSMITH. NOTE 8, PAGE 29. "Now come still evening on." — PARADISE... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1845 - 788 pages
...circumstances contributed to prevent their being that time was of which they had often heard — that time " ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ;" but he believed that previous to the 16th century all the peasantry drew portions of their maintenance... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation - 1978 - 412 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...rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions,... | |
 | M. W. Beresford, John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph - 1979 - 320 pages
...decay; . . . 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 maintain'd its man;. . . OLIVEK GOLDSMITH, The Deserted Village In the two centuries following Domesday... | |
 | 1981 - 248 pages
...source of corruption: A time there was, ere England's grief began, When every rod 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,... | |
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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... 
