| John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - 544 pages
...is always the ' garden fewer that grows « wild: A man he was, to all the country dear, And paffing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place ; Unfkilful he to fawn, or feek for power, By doflrines fafhion'd to the... | |
| William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear. And palfing. rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place; Unpraftis'd he to fawn, or feek for power, By doftrines fafhion'd to the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...difclofe, The village preacher's modclt manlion rofe. A man he was to all the country dear, And parting tube as black .As wiih'd to change, his Uirlkilful he to fawn, or feck for pow'r, [place; By doctrines faihionM to the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden sm i I'd , And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he fan. his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd tochange his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or... | |
| Jacques Delille - 1800 - 284 pages
...Village; et peut - être ne sera-t-on pas faché de trouver ici les vers du poëte anglois. « Near yonder copse where once the garden smil'd, « And...disclose, « The village preacher's modest mansion rosé. <i A man he was, to all the country dear, „ And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; «... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...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 still...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 to the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 366 pages
...difclofe, The village preacher's mod eft manfion rofe. A man- he was to all the country dear, And paffing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh d to change, his place; Unfkilful he to fawn, or feek for power, By doctrines fafhion'd to the... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 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 wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...EAR yonder copse , "where once the gardea smilM , And still where many a garden flower grows will!; There where a few torn shrubs the place disclose)...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year: Rcmoie fr .m towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er hal chang'd, nor wish'd to change ti» place : Unpractis'd... | |
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