 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made. But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroyed, can never be fupplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1770 - 604 pages
...fimple and natural (late, with the miferies and vices that have been introduced by poliihed life : ' A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...has made; But a bold peafantry, th^ir country's pride, When once deftroyed, can never be fupplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 pages
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry,...maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefbme ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His beft companions, innocence and... | |
 | 1785 - 304 pages
...far away thy children leave the land. Princes and lords may flourifli, or may fade ; . A breath can make them as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry,...never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's grief began, Whfn ev'ry rood of ground maintaiii'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome... | |
 | English poetry - 1785 - 320 pages
...thy children leave the land. Princes and lords may flouvifl', or may fade ; A breath can make them at a breath has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's...never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's grief began, When cv'ry rood of ground maintainVt its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefomc... | |
 | English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
........ Princes and lords may flcurifl', or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has maJe :' '. But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When...never be fupply'd, A time there was, ere England's grief began, When e\'ry rood of ground maintaib'd its man ; • . ! ' For him light labour fpread her... | |
 | William Thomson - England - 1788 - 400 pages
...While wealth accumulates, and men decay j Princes and lords may flourilh or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry,...pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. Another plan is abfolutely neceflary for the improvement of all this country, which is, to grant long... | |
 | Jean-Charles Laveaux - Prussia (Germany) - 1789 - 732 pages
...fame footing, and to oblige every perfon to take a certain quantity, tvbftber hefmokes or not ! (19) A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man i But times are alter'dj trade's unfeeling train Ufurp the land, and difpofiefs the Twain. Along the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 pages
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourifh, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peafantry,...its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome {lore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His beft companions, innocence and health ;... | |
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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... 
