 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...  Annual Report - Page 1201894Full view - About this book
 | 1825 - 208 pages
...brother, the clergyman, to whom he dedicated his poem, The Traveller, and whom tte has depicted as " A man to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a jear." (" Quebec Paper, 5 Nov. 1823.) AMERICAN TEA. — A letter from W. Y.Lewis, ofNew Orleans, states... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...following. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,...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 disclose,...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
...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 disclose,...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 - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pensive plain. Nearyonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows m C. Hall 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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1824 - 240 pages
...no particular objections, 1 will light my sheroot," Sic. &c. &c. CHAPTER XVI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. DRYDEN, from Chaucer. MRS. DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the sanguinary... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 396 pages
...whether you. have ever discovered a more enviable instance of happiness than the following : — " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor vvish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1824 - 828 pages
...the clergyman, to whom he dedicated his poem, ' The Traveller,' and whom he has depicted as • a man to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a year." THE Westmoreland newspapers record the recent death of an industrious and taving clergyman, of the... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 268 pages
...no particular objections, I will light my sheroot,» etc. etc. etc. CHAPTER HI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. DRYDEN,/rom Chaucer. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the... | |
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