 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...  Half Tints: Table D'hôte and Drawing-room - Pàgina 189per Addison Peale Russell - 1867 - 232 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pàgines
...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...Remote from 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 fashion'd... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pàgines
...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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pàgines
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man s in this breast, and pleasure in these arme. Oitoo. Take, take me all ; inquire into my heart You k bis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to'change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pàgines
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man friend followed signal? with a rattle so irresistibly comic, that a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dt change his place;... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1831 - 294 pàgines
...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,...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,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pàgines
...place disclose, The village 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, îïor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1982 - 228 pàgines
...pounds a year: cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), where the local vicar is described as: '. . . to all the country dear, /And passing rich with forty pounds a year. . .' (Collected Works, IV, p. 293, ll. 141-2). The portrait goes on to describe his fixity, integrity... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 pàgines
...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...Remote from 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... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pàgines
...self-perceived, his life corresponds to a perennial ideal, from Chaucer on down, of the rural parson who is "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year" (Deserted Village, 11. 141-42.). Loss and death do of course occur in Selborne, but always in a context... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pàgines
...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...prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The... | |
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