 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, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches,...  The Kilmarnock mirror, and literary gleaner - Page 701820Full view - About this book
 | Jews - 1821 - 284 pages
...too many in this island, he proceeds — A time there was, ere England's grief began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...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...health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...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...health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...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, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Edward Nares - Heraldry - 1823 - 386 pages
...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, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Edward Nares - Precedence - 1824 - 424 pages
...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, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's gneis bogan, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light Labour spread her wholesome store. Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more; His beet companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood illiam C. Hall requir'd, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...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...health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the... | |
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