 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...filled each pause the nightingale had made. . . . Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled. of any other heaven but you, May I he struck this moment blind, and lose Your blessed sight, bis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to'change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the arden emil'd, " In a lump!" cried the other, " I a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dt change his place;... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...LESSON XLI. The Country Clergyman. — GOLDSMITH. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Noi e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his pl-jce • Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...[from The DtterUd Village.} THE VILLAGE PREACHER. 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; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...NEAR yonder copse, where once the gar den smil'd [wild, And still, where many a garden flow'r grows There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,...preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country, dear, Í And passing rich with forty pounds a year ! Remote from towns, he ran his god!y race,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 pages
...some errors. The gay and dissolute think little of the miseries which are stealing softly after them. The Country Clergyman. Near yonder copse, where once...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 to the... | |
 | Михаил Николаевич Загоскин - Russia - 1834 - 232 pages
...where once the garden smiled, A nd still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a lew torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's...rose ; % A man he was to all the country dear, And passing-rich with forty pounds a year." GOLDSMITH. YOURY and Alexis, much against their will, followed... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...temptation, if he take no care himself to avoid it. ' THE VILLAGE CLERGYMAN. '• ! . i .- . 1 ' . »*.; (I i NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Neir e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place. There,-... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the pluce disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose....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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 362 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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
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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... 
