 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
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 560 strani
...r For him light labor 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 arc alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain : Along the lawn where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 304 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 ; And every pang that folly pays to pride. These gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 560 strani
...: For him light Labor spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more ; His best companions, innocence and health, And his...wealth. But times are alter'd : trade's, unfeeling trainUsurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1857 - 506 strani
...beacons to warn you, seasonably, against adding yourselves to the denizens of haunts where " Unwieldly wealth, and cumbrous pomp repose ; And every want to luxury allied, And every pang that/o% pays to pride !" I would that all my young countrymen might have looked upon the last hours... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 strani
...For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no mtfre ; His best companions, innocence and health ; And his...rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose ; And ev'ry want to luxury allied, And ev'ry pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty... | |
 | 1981 - 248 strani
...man; 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...unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. . . . 124 One can also find these reactionary impulses for a static society in Bonald's opposition... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 strani
...began When every rod of ground maintained its man; Just gave what life required, 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.63 The same self-dependence... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 strani
...For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: 60 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 scattered... | |
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