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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... "
Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English Poets - Page 218
by John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 386 pages
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The poems and plays of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...has made; But a 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,...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...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...
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The Deserted Village, Traveller, and Miscellaneous Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once ctestroy'd,can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground niainiaiii'd its man ; For him light Labor spread her wholsome store, Just gave what life requir'd,...
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Miraculous Prophecies and Predictions of Eminent Men, from the Earliest ...

1821 - 284 pages
...as a specimen of but 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...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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 required, but gave no more; His best companions, innocence...
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The Traveller, the Deserted Village, and Other Poems

Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 pages
...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 required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 30

Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 426 pages
...has made : Hut 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...
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Heraldic Anomalies: Or Rank Confusion in Our Orders of Precedence ..., Volume 2

Edward Nares - 1823 - 386 pages
...has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'<! can never be 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....
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Heraldic Anomalies, Volume 2

Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 pages
...Advertiser. Bat a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd 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 reqair'd, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. liam C. Hall spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence...
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