 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...  A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse - Page 243edited by - 1925 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...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 he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...modest mansion rose. A man he was to alNhe 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 he to fawn , or seek for power , By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...Bleep-fetter'd pillow restore Our day -sport, distorted but pleasing, once more. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. N K.Ait yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...Nor e'er had chang'd nor wished to change his place : Unpractical he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims... | |
 | 1843 - 184 pages
...nightingale had made. GOLDSMITH. THE VILLAGE CLERGYMAN. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, / And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | 1843 - 368 pages
...the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn sh»bs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn or seek for pow'r, [place ; By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...sleep-fetter'd pillow restore Our day-sport, distorted but pleasing, once more. THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. NEA* yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...Nor e'er had chang'd nor wished to change his place: Unpractic'd he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...— APRIL THE TWENTY-THIRD. The Village Clergyman, NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 pages
...than a matter of finding things. There's wood to be cut. Come along.' HOWARD SPRING (1889—1965) 52. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,...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 fashioned to the... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 pages
...resemblance to Chaucer's Parson in The Canterbury Tales. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There,...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 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...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor o'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place . . . The benevolent mind cannot but yield its hearty... | |
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