 | 1826 - 300 Seiten
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor vvish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to... | |
 | William Child Green - 1826 - 606 Seiten
...copse, where once the garden tmil'd, And still where many a garden 6ow'r grows wild, • , There, w here a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose;" but which, at the present epoch, was accounted noble for the sake of the hospitality displayed by its... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 Seiten
...VILLAGE PREACHER. 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...started and awaked. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. GOLDSMITH. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There...race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, hi* place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 Seiten
...singer. LESSON XLI. The Country Clergyman.—GOLDSMITH. 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 wished to change, his pi ,ce ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 Seiten
...started and awaked. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. GOLDSMITH. Near yonder copse, where once the garden simFii, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There...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,w NOT e'er had chang'd, nor... | |
 | 1828 - 398 Seiten
...VILLAGE CLERGYMAN. NZAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The Tillage preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with... | |
 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1869 - 842 Seiten
...easy. In his pretty poem " The Deserted Village," Goldsmith says of the wreck of the Parsonage house, " There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village Preacher's modest mansion rose." But far more modest, far more fearful of the public gaze, is the venerable Council Hall of ancient... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1982 - 228 Seiten
...pounds a year: cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), where the local vicar is described as: '. . . to all the country dear, /And passing rich with forty pounds a year. . .' (Collected Works, IV, p. 293, ll. 141-2). The portrait goes on to describe his fixity, integrity... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 Seiten
...than a matter of finding things. There's wood to be cut. Come along.' HOWARD SPRING (1889—1965) 52. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,...change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize More... | |
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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... 
