 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
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...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 Worcester - 1837 - 264 pages
...reverend, champion, and faltering in no. 6 ; even in no. 7 ; serious in no. 8 THE VILLAGE PREACHER. I NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, ":.« village preacher's modest mansion rose. 2. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...several of her descendants reside in the village.] Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose.(l) A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 pages
...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...a garden flower grows wild — There, where a few toni shrubs the place disclose. The village Preacher's modest mansion rose.' " Sff LlfK, vol. ip 19.... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ? THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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 smiled, And...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...proper epithet for this bird's music.' An. Nat. ip 329. 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pages
...harmless train. The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dnir, And passing rich with forty pounds a-ycar ; Remote from towns he run his godly race,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 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 smiled, And...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 to the... | |
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