 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...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;... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...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 forty pounds a year ; Remote from town* he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change bis place ; Unpractis'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...meaning of every or each : as, " They cost five shillings a dozen ;" that is, " every dozen." " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." Golthmttt. that is, " every year." There is a particular use of the indefinite article, which deserves... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...TlicrtMuere a few torn shrub* 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 rail his godly race, Xor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : I'oskilful... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 694 pages
...Scotland, and who answered most literally to Goldsmith's description of the " 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'd to change, his... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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 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 .;.... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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 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 Unskilful... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...'JTkTe, where a few torn shr ubs the place .1 it-close "The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man Pփ- a-ycar ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wi^h'd to chnu'j.0, hi... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, Tin- village preacher's modest mansion row. 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 cbang'd, nor wish'd to change, bit Unskilful... | |
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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... 
