 | Book - 1841 - 164 sivua
...CCountrj parson. 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...with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran Nor e'er had chane'd, nor wisk'd t» < Unskilful he to fawn, or seek 1 By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 sivua
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden simTd, , while you got an< you gave ! How did Grub-street...wherever it flies, To act as an angel and mix with the a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dt change his place;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 sivua
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 sivua
...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,...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 wish'd to change, his place;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 sivua
...and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse , where once the garden smil'd ,...village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to alNhe country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 sivua
...Bleep-fetter'd pillow restore Our day -sport, distorted but pleasing, once more. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. N K.Ait yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...Nor e'er had chang'd nor wished to change his place : Unpractical he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 sivua
...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,...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 sivua
...resemblance to Chaucer's Parson in The Canterbury Tales. 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 place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 sivua
...above [Scott's note]. necessary; but probably few readers will think the following extracts tedious. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. This is a fine natural stroke — We see the 'copse,' the 'torn shrubs,' and the ' scatter' d flowers.'... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 662 sivua
...weep till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 80 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd. And...a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's'4 modest mansion rose. nie the loud laugh of the village simpleton. 12. In eighteenth-century... | |
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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... 
