 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
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 408 strani
...; For him i ight labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requited, but gave no more; His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth." Small freeholds were very numerous. Some consisted of no more than a cottage or little farm, and a... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 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...luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom, Those calm desires that ask'd but little room, Those... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 strani
...country's pride, Wlun once destroyed, can never be supplied. GOLDSMITH. His best companions, ianocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered ; trade's unfeeling trail: Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where... | |
 | William T. Newenham - 1851 - 154 strani
...terminus, thereby affording just grounds for the bard's lament :— But times are alter'd ; trades unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess the...swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwii'ldly wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. If you lack fellowship with these as well with those troops... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 strani
...; 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...hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; p 2 And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 strani
...For him, light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave whut life required, but gave no more ; to His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are altered : trade's unfeeling train Usurp i !». land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 380 strani
...' A kynge may make a lorde a knave ; And of a knave a lorde also.' Gower's Con/. Amantis, fol. 162. His best companions, innocence and health ; And his...unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; I Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 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. But times are alter d ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 strani
...plumes supply. Swilt. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich on forty pounds a year; His best companions innocence and health, And his best riches ignorance of wealth. Goldsmith. RIDDtES. RIDICULOUS. 549 EIDDLES. ALL who enter in this world a faded picture with them... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 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...wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to opulence allied,i And every pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,... | |
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