 | William Enfield - 1805 - 456 sidor
...difclofe> The village preacher's modeft manikin ro£b. A man he was, to all the country dear, And pafling rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place ; Unpra&is'd he to fawn, or feek for pow'r. By doftrines fafhion'd to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 sidor
...disclose, The village-preacher's modest mansion rose. A man lie 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 he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to... | |
 | 1806 - 330 sidor
...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 he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 sidor
...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 he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to... | |
 | 1808 - 874 sidor
...relative of Henry Brooke, feeling himfelf prefled by indigence formed a, defign of becoming author, NOTE. Remote from towns he ran his godly race,' Nor e'er had chang'd nor wilhed to changed h's place ; Unproflxed he to lawn or feek for pow'r, By doctrines fafhioned to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 sidor
...the garden fmil'd, And ftill where many a garden-flower grows wild— There, where a few torn (limbs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft...manfion rofe : A man he was to all the country dear, And patting rich with forty pounds a-year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd,... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 694 sidor
...Goldsmith's description of the " Village Preacher :" " 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 !" The Reverend JOHN SKINNER, for nearly fir years Minister of... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 sidor
...' 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 he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, " By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 sidor
...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 he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 sidor
...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 he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
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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... 
