 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...following verbs : — . Bid, Bite, Choose, Clothe, Do, Forsake, Go, Let, Mow, Sit, Write. 7. Parse " A time there was ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man." 8. Define the following words of like meaning : — Accent, Emphasis. Language,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 pages
...produce of their fields for the supply of all needful wants, and taking little thought for the morrow. " A time there was, 'ere England's griefs began, When...every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him i ight labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requited, but gave no more; His best... | |
 | 1849 - 492 pages
...what they were, Mr. Ford," said Watkins. " Let me read to you a little piece from my newspaper : ' A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; But now, alas ! Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose.'... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 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,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...may fade ; 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 ; 5 For him light labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required,... | |
 | 1871 - 732 pages
...economy of the paragraph of The Deserted 1'illaye has often been derided, which commences thus : — " 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 whnt life required,... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...has made ;f 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 every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; * [" Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember... | |
 | Harry Hieover - 1850 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Bindley - 1850 - 124 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
