 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...  The First[-fifth] Reader ... - Page 219by Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrnbs the place disclose. The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all the conntry... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...'till morn ; She only left, of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still...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; llcmote from towns... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...train, The sad historian of the pensive plaiu. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, -'till where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where...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... | |
 | George Vaughan Sampson - Agriculture - 1814 - 418 pages
...defence consisted of a moat; tlic terrace, orchards, and pleasure grounds may yet be traced : " In yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, " And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild." Respecting the last noted personages of this family, there is a curious anecdote.... | |
 | James M'Donald - Spellers - 1815 - 170 pages
...of being to have been. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden srail'd,And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few thorn shrubs the place disclose,. The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...The fad hiftorian of the penfive plain ! Near yonder copfe, where once the garden fmil'd, And ftill where many a garden flower grows wild, There where a few torn fhrubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smilM, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...thee. My own tormentor let me be, And groan in hopeless woe THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. BY GOLDSMITH. NEAH 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... | |
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