 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 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 changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Cork (Ireland) - 1843 - 576 pages
...brother, with whom he frequently corresponded, continued there as " the country clergyman, — " " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ;" * Connected with this period of his life may be noticed an aneedote, inserted in Mr. Graham "a "... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 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 wished to change his place : Unpractical... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1843 - 372 pages
...no particular objections, I will light my sheroot," &c. &'e. &c. CHAPTER XVI. THE CLEROYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pound* a-year. GOLDSMITH'S Detcrtcd Village. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been... | |
 | Cass Grove Barns - History - 1970 - 312 pages
...me I become an interested bystander, only one degree removed. CHAPTER XVI A Pioneer Preacher "A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." — CMdmith. EV. Charles Wesley Wells, a Methodist minister, gave many interesting experiences he had... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Fiction - 1982 - 228 pages
...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 - Clergy - 1989 - 244 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... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...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 - Social Science - 260 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 changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 420 pages
...remaining vestige of what was once a garden, is always the ' garden flower that grows wild.' 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 o'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... 
