 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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 fashion'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1839 - 550 pages
...the harmless train. The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden bridegroom, whether he chooses this virgin for his bride 1 country dnir, And passing rich with forty pounds a-ycar ; Remote from towns he run his godly race,... | |
 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - Charity organization - 1839 - 404 pages
...present, and of the primitive ministers of religion ; or even the poet's " Village preacher :" " A man he was to all the country dear ; And passing rich,...towns, he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'a to change hie place. For other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd to raise the... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn or seek for ppw'r, [place ; By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There,'...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 wish'd to change his place... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. [smiled, Near yonder copse, where once the garden And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, [place ; Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - Clergy - 1989 - 244 pages
...than a matter of finding things. There's wood to be cut. Come along.' HOWARD SPRING (1889—1965) 52. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,...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 fashioned to the... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 pages
...resemblance to Chaucer's Parson in The Canterbury Tales. 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; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...[Scott's note]. necessary; but probably few readers will think the following extracts tedious. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. This is a fine natural stroke — We see the 'copse,' the 'torn shrubs,' and the ' scatter' d flowers.'... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 662 pages
...till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 80 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd. And still...a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's'4 modest mansion rose. nie the loud laugh of the village simpleton. 12. In eighteenth-century... | |
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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... 
