 | Thomas Branagan, Julius Rubens Ames - 1839 - 404 pàgines
...religion ; or even the poet's " Village preacher :" " 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'a to change hie place. For other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More skill'd... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pàgines
...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 changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn or seek for ppw'r, [place ; By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1842 - 348 pàgines
...^happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER II. Unpractised he to fawn, or to seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched, than to rise. To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But... | |
 | 1843 - 486 pàgines
...following lines, he so pleasingly to the very life describes the worthy rural divine — Unpractised he to fawn or seek for power By doctrines fashioned...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. To raise the wretched indeed his warm, benevolent heart... | |
 | 1843 - 300 pàgines
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 | Robert Pollok - 1843 - 110 pàgines
...seeketh his happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER II. ' Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...varying hour, Far other aims his heart had learned to pri/.e, More skilled to raise the wretched, than to rise To them his heart, his love, his criefs, were... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pàgines
...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 wished to change his place : Unpractical he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1843 - 302 pàgines
...of all these incidents was of a kind directly opposite to that which they had produced on Swift. " Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour." So far, indeed, from abating in the least of his warmth of attachment for the party of his early choice,... | |
 | 1844 - 320 pàgines
...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...to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learnt to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. * ****** Beside the bed where parting... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1844 - 274 pàgines
...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...power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; For other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house... | |
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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... 
