| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden-flow'r grows wild; There, where a ftw torn shruhs 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;... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the .ends of being to, have bc«n. POPE CHAP. V. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. NEAR yonder copse, where once...passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from town* he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change bis place ; Unpractis'd he... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...it. Take as an example, the charming character of the village preacher from the Deserted Vil lage ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, '...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 to... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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, And...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... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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 wish'd to change his place Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...once the garden gmir'd, Aud still where many a garden flow'r growl wild, TlicrtMuere a few torn shrub* the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he rail his godly race, Xor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : I'oskilful he to fawn,... | |
| John Skinner - 1809 - 694 pages
...Scotland, and who answered most literally to Goldsmith's description of the " Village Preacher :" " A man he was to all the country dear, " And passing rich...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 the Episcopal... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...And still whm-inaii) a garden flow rgrowswilJ 'JTkTe, where a few torn shr ubs the place .1 it-close a-ycar ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wi^h'd to chnu'j.0, hi... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...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 wish'd to change, hi* Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, [place; By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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 wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashiou'd to the... | |
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