 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 936
...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...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... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply *d. A time there was, e're 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 requir'd but... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...wistful recollection of a vanished order, as witness this couplet from Goldsmith's Deserted Village: "A time there was, ere England's griefs began / When every rood of ground maintained its man." 56 The glorious "was" inevitably yields to a "now" of decadence and falling away: "But now the sounds... | |
 | Barbara Ching, Gerald W. Creed - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...Village" (1770), also bemoaned the urbanization of England and similarly posited a rural Golden Age: A time there was 'ere England's griefs began, When every rood of land maintained its man. . . But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and dispossess... | |
 | James S. Taylor - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...had 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...Labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Chaim David Mazoff - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 192
...feet of "trade": 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...decay . . . 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...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more . . . But times are altered; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land and... | |
 | Mavis Cheek - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...'Don't sing, Mummy/ they implored. Now, in a moment of joyous liberation, she gave it all she had got: 'When every rood of ground maintained its man; For...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, and gave no more: His blest companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | British Academy - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...charming, but unconvincing nostalgia. But it was what he went on to say which gives the game away. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His blest companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...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 griefs began, When...labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance... | |
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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... 
