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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... "
Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ... - Page 120
by Ancient learning - 1812
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 42

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...of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required, but gave no more. His bed companions, innocence...
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The Deserted Village: A Poem

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...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 ground maintained its man j For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required, but gave no more....
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Retaliation: a poem. To which is added, some account of the life ..., Volume 1

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...of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required, but gave no more : His beft companions, innocence...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Now First ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 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 every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefbme ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd,...
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Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets

John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...made ; '» But a bold peafantvy, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd can never be fupply'd. A time there was, e're England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd...
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The Life of Frederick the Second, King of Prussia: To which are ..., Volume 2

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...
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The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - 206 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 every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome {lore, Juft gave what life requir'd,...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...has made : But a bold pcalantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupplicd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour 1'prcad her wholcfomc ftorc ; Juft gave what life rcquir'd,...
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Poems Selected and Printed by a Small Party of English, who Made this ...

1792 - 112 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 every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore ; Juft gave what life requir'd...
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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - English poetry - 1792 - 284 pages
...is more valuable to the community or nation to which he than huff a dozen idle Lords or Gentlbmen. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintam'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her vvholefome flore, Jurt gave what life requir'd,...
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