 | English poetry, William Fordyce Mavor - 1823 - 502 pàgines
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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;... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1823 - 296 pàgines
...wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change^ his place. There, to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings leant to virtue's side ; But in... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pàgines
...space between ; Prov'd, by the ends of being, to kav« been. POPE. CHAP. V. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. 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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other... | |
 | Rufus Nutting - 1823 - 152 pàgines
...with a little respect." ) XXV. The indefinite article is sometimes used for each or every. " A man he was, to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a year'.'*— GOLDS* IT jr. XXVI-. The case absolute frequently occurs in E-HJl lish, as also in other... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pàgines
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs all tell his joy to each, With that mute eloquence...? The blasts of heav'n, the drenching dews of ear norwish'd to change hisplace; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Select readings - 1824 - 300 pàgines
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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 bis place.... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pàgines
...the garden smil'd, And stUl where many a. garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
 | 1824 - 430 pàgines
...And utill where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There, where a few torn shruhs the place disdw I he village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear And passing rich wkh forty pounds a year! Kemote from towns he ran his godly race Nore'er hadchang'd, nor wi*h'd to... | |
 | F. Campbell - 1824 - 440 pàgines
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r 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, 1 And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 268 pàgines
...no particular objections, I will light my sheroot,» etc. etc. etc. CHAPTER HI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. DRYDEN,/rom Chaucer. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the sanguinary... | |
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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... 
