 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...  Exercises in Reading and Recitation - Page 154edited by - 1828 - 251 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 554 pages
...fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose." And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1837 - 572 pages
...fearful accuracy what his fathei's house was to be— ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose.' And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - Authors - 1837 - 558 pages
...fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose." And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rieh with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran...godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his plaee ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doetrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...gallant like young Lochinvar ? THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. 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 fashioned... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And...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 to the varying hour ; Far... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...The nightingale's pausing song would be the proper epithet for this bird's music.' An. Nat. ip 329. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And...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 to the varying hour ; Far... | |
 | 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... | |
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