 | British poets - 1822 - 296 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, There,...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, [place; By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 pages
...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...Remote from 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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...perish, which contains such lines as the following. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...CLERGYMAN. .N EAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'ii, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Remote from 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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | 1824 - 444 pages
...THE RECTORY. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And stUl where many a. garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Remote from 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 doctrinei... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Nearyonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, xy:/`y:/ Hy:/ a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd norwish'd to change hisplace;... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...where once t he garden tmil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a tew torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year, Aemote from towns he ran his godly race, [place ; Nor e'er had chang't), nor wish'd to change,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 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 ;...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 wish'd to change his place... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...garden flow'r grows wild, There where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village .preacher'^ modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all the country...passing rich, with forty pounds a year ; / Remote from town's he ran his godly rac«, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his plact, Unskilful he... | |
 | 1826 - 300 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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor vvish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines... | |
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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... 
