 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 ページ
...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...of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - 2006 - 230 ページ
...passage in a broad Drydenian style, a kind of serious reworking of the opening of Absalom and Achitophel: A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When...of ground maintained its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life required, but gave no more. His best companions, innocence... | |
 | Simon White, John Goodridge, Bridget Keegan - 2006 - 324 ページ
...had written of the engrossment of land and amalgamation of estates in the later eighteenth century: "A time there was, ere England's griefs began, / When every rood of ground maintained its man" ("The Deserted Village," 57-58) in The Poems of Thomas Gray, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, ed.... | |
 | Mathilde Skoie, Sonia Bjørnstad-Velázquez - 2006 - 206 ページ
...Harrison once knew as the ruins of Auburn from the 'smiling' village of Goldsmith's nostalgic memory. 'A time there was, ere England's griefs began, / When every rood of ground maintained its man' (DF, lines 57-8). In Leeds as in Auburn 'times are altered', but Harrison cannot exult with Goldsmith... | |
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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... 
