 | Harry Hieover - 1850 - 290 דפים
...alone would have been sufficient to prove him what he was, a very pretty poet and a very weak man. " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man." A very catching couplet to those who can believe such a state of things practicable or possible. Poets... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 932 דפים
...realize the picture which one of our poets drew of England in olden time; it is Goldsmith that says : " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." That distich speaks of prosperity without at all dealing in hyperbole. What is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 דפים
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 דפים
...has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 דפים
...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...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 דפים
...relation is always that of causes, effects, or adjuncts. 1. Substituting the cause for the effect : A. time there was, ere England's Griefs began, When every rood of ground, maintained its man. — GOLDSMITH. 2. Substituting the effect for the cause : Can gray hairs make folly... | |
 | 1851 - 796 דפים
...between the worms of the British missionary, and the DEEDS of the British soldier. Poetry has said, "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." But plain prose has not condescended to enlighten us in relation to that fact,... | |
 | 1851 - 796 דפים
...between the WORDS of the British missionary, and the DKEDS of the British soldier. Poetry has said, " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." But plain prose has not condescended to enlighten us in relation to that fact,... | |
 | 1826 - 812 דפים
...of a poet, and such a poet as Goldsmith? This " dreamer" on the state of his country not only says " A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man;" which is as glaring a falsehood as ever was put upon paper: but < " that states,... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 דפים
...happy and the ruined village. I do not mean the occasional gesture, in the style of 'Oh wassel days'. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rood of ground maintain'd its man. I mean the apparent description of a contemporary social process, which takes the poem beyond the relatively... | |
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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... 
