 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 Seiten
...make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once dostroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's...Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : r His best companions, innocence and health, v "V And his best riches,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 Seiten
...Princes and lords may flourish, | or may fade ;] A breath can make them, | as a breath has made :] 55 But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,) When...For him light Labour spread her wholesome store,) 60 Just gave] what life required, | but gave no more :] His best companions, innocence and health ;)... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 196 Seiten
...When once destroy' d, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's grief's began, When everv rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him light...innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealih. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along... | |
 | Publius Ovidius Naso, William Lee - 1860 - 116 Seiten
...eternity, for none I know Second to me, or like, equal much less." Milton, Par. Lost, book viii. 406. "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, and gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health, And -his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 Seiten
...than the lower grades of society. "Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, — , A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. " Could we have the old Romans' substratum before their luxuries and superfluities were introducecf,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 Seiten
...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...rood of ground maintain'd its man : For him light Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ; His best companions,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1862 - 328 Seiten
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: 8 Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry,...store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more: 2 Where] « Wealth in all commercial states is fountf to accumulate; the very laws may contribute to... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 Seiten
...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,...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,... | |
 | 1863 - 392 Seiten
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : r Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade : A breath can make them, as a breath has made But a bold peasantry,...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 Seiten
...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,...destroy'd can never be supplied. A time there was, ere3 England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; •For him light labor spread... | |
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 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 destroy'd, can... 
