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... L'homme des champs; ou, Les géorgiques françoises - Página 174de Jacques Delille - 1800 - 272 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
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...There, where a ftw torn shruhs the place 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 he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place;... | |
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...relative of Henry Brooke, feeling himfelf prefled by indigence formed a, defign of becoming author, NOTE. Remote from towns he ran his godly race,' Nor e'er had chang'd nor wilhed to changed h's place ; Unproflxed he to lawn or feek for pow'r, By doctrines fafhioned to... | |
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