 A time there was, ere 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, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches,...  Poetical Works - Stran 36avtor: Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Hone - 1827 - 452 strani
...man: For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gate what life required, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. The old man, who thus reads and recollects, has seen too much of factions to be a. partisan. His only... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1828 - 348 strani
...began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man : Butnow^alas! Along the lawn where scatter' d hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose, And every want to luxury allied." Mrs B. I shall point out to you a passage in Arthur Young's Travels in France, in which this question... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 strani
...Whem For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his...and cumb'rous pomp repose : And every want to luxury ally'd, And every pang that folly paj s to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 strani
...man. For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Jast gave what life requirM, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered: trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn, where scattev'd... | |
 | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles - 1830 - 622 strani
...For him light labour spread her wholesome store, ' Just gave what life requir'd, and gave no more : ' His best companions, innocence and health ; ' An.d his best riches, ignorance of wealth." M 2 But situated as the Javan peasantry are, there is but little inducement to invest capital in agriculture,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 strani
...C'eat un verre quiluit, Qu'un souffle peut d&ruire, ct qu'un souffle a produit.' " — D'ISRAKLI.] But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp...hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ;(1) And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 strani
...Caux, an old French poet, in one of his moral poems, comparing the world to his hour-glass, says — But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp...land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn where scattered hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ;(1) And every want to luxury allied,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 338 strani
...continued he, " and shall •we ever see again the time, ' When every rood of land maintained its man ; His best companions innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth. But times are altered, trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain.' " One of these cold theorists,"... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 strani
...; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more : d of your safe arrival, sir, — I'm told you had some accidents by the way. Marlow. Only a few, m alter' d ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 strani
...; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. (l) [ " Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember... | |
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