Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 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 destroy'd, can... The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Poems. Dramas. Criticism ... - Seite 55von Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - 204 Seiten
...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...of ground 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... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 Seiten
...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...of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd but gave no more : His beft companions innocence... | |
| Jean-Charles Laveaux - 1789 - 732 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome {lore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His beft companions, innocence... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 Seiten
...has made : But a bold pcalantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupplicd. t refrefliment in their reft; Or whether fpirits in...Difpcl their i'oft embrace again; And on my watchf 1'prcad her wholcfomc ftorc ; Juft gave what life rcquir'd, but gave no more: His bed companions, innocence... | |
| 1792 - 112 Seiten
...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...of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore ; Juft gave what life requir'd , but gave no more ; His beft companions... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 Seiten
...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...of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more — Mis belt companions,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 Seiten
...has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, \Vhen once deftroy'd, can never be (applied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When...of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefomc (lore ; Juft gave what life retjuir'd, but gave no mure : His bcft companions,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 366 Seiten
...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...of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, luft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more: His beft companions, innocence... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 Seiten
...make them, as a breath 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 mainlain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
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