 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...  The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith - Page 210by Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857Full view - About this book
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...to, have bc«n. POPE CHAP. V. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...the village preacher from the Deserted Vil lage ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, ' And still where many a garden flower grows wild, '...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 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...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
...once the garden gmir'd, Aud still where many a garden flow'r growl wild, TlicrtMuere a few torn shrub* the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...And still whm-inaii) a garden flow rgrowswilJ 'JTkTe, where a few torn shr ubs the place .1 it-close 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 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...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, hi* Unskilful... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 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...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;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There...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... | |
 | 1814 - 310 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 smiled, And...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; llcmote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place... | |
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