 | James M'Donald - 1815 - 170 Seiten
...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...all the country dear, And passing rich with forty p iu'nds a year ; Remote from towns- he ran his go iiy race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 Seiten
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs 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 bis place;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 Seiten
...modeft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear, And paffing rich with forty pounds a year : Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place. Unfkillful he to fawn or feek for power, By doftrines fafhion'd to the... | |
 | John Carey - 1816 - 300 Seiten
...» Their splendid domes and busy streets declare Their firmest fort, a king's parental care. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich * with forty pounds a year. Iambic verses of eight syllables — in other respects, pure latnbics--^- but containing examples... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 Seiten
...once the garden smilM, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...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...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 - 1818 - 294 Seiten
...There, where a few torn shrnbs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A roaa 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, Ms place... | |
 | 1850 - 938 Seiten
...is nothing more beautiful or more complete than the description of the village pastor, — " The man to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year." Indeed, of the entire poem, it may be deliberately said, that it has more tenderness and pathos, gives... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 Seiten
...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...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 wished to change his place.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 Seiten
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs 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;... | |
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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... 
