 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 Seiten
...where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year: Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : Unpractis'd... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was is breast, and pleasure in these arme. Oitoo. Take, take me all ; i Remote from towns, he ran bis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to'change his place; Unskilful... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | James Rush - 1833 - 432 Seiten
...those whose elocution consists in such riddles, I propose the following from Goldsmith. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing "rich with forty pounds a year. Now let them guess, or dispute, for the rest of their lives, whether the emphasis I pass by the faults... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 Seiten
...of retry or each; as, " They cost five shillings a dozen ;" that is,, ' retry dozen.' " A man he was to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a year !" that is, ' every year.' 3. When several adjectives are connected, and express the various qualities... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 Seiten
...where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place : Unskilful... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 Seiten
...attendance in these abodes of misery, is admirably described."- — JEFFREY.] (2) [" A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." — GOLDSMITH.] • A sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day, (') And, skill'd at whist, devotes... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond - 1835 - 240 Seiten
...of every or each: as, ' They cost five shillings a dozen;' that is, ' every dozen.' ' A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.' — Goldsmith OF RULE XIII. — The adjective pronouns this, that, these, and those, with the numeral... | |
 | 1836 - 206 Seiten
...bold relief, "they" would require emphasis. In the following couplet from "Goldsmith," "A man he was to all the country dear, And " passing" rich with forty pounds a year," if "passing" is taken in a superlative sense, it would require a distinctive emphasis; if the clergyman... | |
 | 1837 - 860 Seiten
...shed him a title for orders. He remained there as curate about twelve months, where * Л man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.'« In th?t church lie preached Ы* Jirst sermon, on June ?''. 17/3, f-..m I Cor it. I, 2, which he afterwards... | |
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place. 
