 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1770 - 604 דפים
...(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, but gave no more.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 דפים
...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, but gave no more :... | |
 | T AGERTON - 1794 - 390 דפים
...peafantry, their country's pride, 55 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, Juftgave what life required, but gave no more: 50... | |
 | 1857 - 628 דפים
...than that to which Goldsmith gave new wings when he sent forth the assertion — ' A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man.' [Because the cultivation of land is certainly the most primitive, and is imagined, especially by those... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 דפים
...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 maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome storey Just gave what life required, but gave no more :... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 דפים
...can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; For him, light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more :... | |
 | 1817 - 696 דפים
...sound political economy, and in every thing commendable, except as above admitted. " A time there was, 'ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour spread her wholesome storef Just give what life required, and gave no more;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 דפים
...peasantry—their country's pride— When once destroyed, can never be 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 store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1831 - 736 דפים
...what the poet had said upon the subject of the poor man's occupation of land— " A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man. 1 ' In his opinion, if every man was put upon his rood of land, no person would be miserable. The Solicitor... | |
 | 1831 - 32 דפים
...practice for the community, as 1 can show. fJÍ-.í 'j, . .., -) ..-•.--. 1 toit 0' , 'A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man.* ••••'.* In the year 1799, land was let in Ireland for planting this esculent at ¿6.4 per acre,... | |
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A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man... 
