 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 Seiten
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. JSear yonder copse, where oace the garden smiled; And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There,...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Bf'mote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 Seiten
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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... | |
 | 1873 - 536 Seiten
...to him, while officiating, for nearly forty years, as a missionary at Kailua and Ewn : — " ' A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; KemotQ from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. Unskillful... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, [place; By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 Seiten
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, 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... | |
 | Allen Fisk - 1822 - 192 Seiten
...meaning of every or each , at, 4 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. that is, ' every year.' There is a particular use of the indefinite article which deserves... | |
 | 1825 - 208 Seiten
...brother, the clergyman, to whom he dedicated his poem, The Traveller, and whom tte has depicted as " A man to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a jear." (" Quebec Paper, 5 Nov. 1823.) AMERICAN TEA. — A letter from W. Y.Lewis, ofNew Orleans, states... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 Seiten
...perish, which contains such lines as the following. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...CLERGYMAN. .N EAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'ii, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other... | |
 | 1824 - 444 Seiten
...THE RECTORY. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And stUl where many a. garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : . Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrinei fashion"d to the varying hour: For other... | |
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Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, 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... 
