...LITERATURE. Examiner: JP McMuRRicn, MA 1. Give a short account of Goldsmith's life. 2. " 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 ;...

...attendance? And surely he is a bad philosopher and a worse historian who says, — "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." There never was any such time ; and, if ever there should be, we who believe that " England's griefs...

...bold 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 labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more :...

...bold 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: 60...

...of a vanished order, as witness this couplet from Goldsmith's Deserted Village: "A time there was, ere England's griefs began / When every rood of ground maintained its man." 56 The glorious "was" inevitably yields to a "now" of decadence and falling away: "But now the sounds...

...fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay 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...

...bold 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 . ....

...unconvincing nostalgia. But it was what he went on to say which gives the game away. 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...

...engrossment of land and amalgamation of estates in the later eighteenth century: "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, / When every rood of ground maintained its man" ("The Deserted Village," 57-58) in The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, ed....

...the ruins of Auburn from the 'smiling' village of Goldsmith's nostalgic memory. 'A time there was, ere England's griefs began, / When every rood of ground maintained its man' (DF, lines 57-8). In Leeds as in Auburn 'times are altered', but Harrison cannot exult with Goldsmith...