 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 sidor
...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 ;...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 sidor
...the harmless train. The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden bridegroom, whether he chooses this virgin for his bride 1 country dnir, And passing rich with forty pounds a-ycar ; Remote from towns he run his godly race,... | |
 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 404 sidor
...present, and of the primitive ministers of religion ; or even the poet's " Village preacher :" " A man he was to all the country dear ; And passing rich,...towns, he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'a to change hie place. For other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the... | |
 | 1840 - 378 sidor
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place...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 ppw'r, [place ; By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 sidor
...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 - 1841 - 398 sidor
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. [smiled, Near yonder copse, where once the garden And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, [place ; Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...[Scott's note]. necessary; but probably few readers will think the following extracts tedious. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...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 sidor
...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 still...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... 
