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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... "
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies - Page 462
1817
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 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...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...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once ctestroy'd,can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground niainiaiii'd its man ; For him light Labor spread her wholsome store, Just gave what life requir'd,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 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 labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,...
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Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every-rood of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome stove, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health ;...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 296 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 labour spread her 'wholesome store, Just gave what life required,...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...has made : Hut 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 labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd,...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 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 labour Spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,...
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Heraldic Anomalies: Or Rank Confusion in Our Orders of Precedence ..., Volume 2

Edward Nares - 1823 - 386 pages
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'<! can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man, E2 For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life reqnir'd,...
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Heraldic Anomalies, Volume 2

Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 pages
...Advertiser. Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man, For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life reqair'd,...
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Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1824 - 908 pages
...to support his family on the produce of his little farm. Do you recollect Goldsmith's lines ? — " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, " When every rood of ground maintain'd its man: " But now, alas ! " Along the lawn where scatter'd hamlets rose, " Unwieldy wealth...
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