 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 Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - 177 ページ 編集 - 1903全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1846 - 352 ページ
...on earth, than by lengthening the tale of dismembered foxes-tails. LVII. THE BAN-DE-LA-EOCHE.-No. 5. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, or wished to change his place: Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1846 - 392 ページ
...description of a country clergyman would, 'with the strictest truth, apply; for as in the poet's words,— " Remote from towns he ran his Godly race, Nor e'er had changed, or wished to change his place : Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 ページ
...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 changed, nor wished to change his place Unski)ful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims... | |
 | Margaret Mackay - 1847 - 440 ページ
...it," said the abbot. " Saint • defend us from heresy, schism and the barons I" CHAPTER III. "C " 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 fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 524 ページ
...characteristics of " the village preacher," which in his father he celebrates, lived in himself! " Unpractised he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour : For other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise."... | |
 | William Edward Heygate - 1847 - 298 ページ
...of his brother-in-law, and Godfrey for another quarter at Athelling. 74 CHAPTER VII. ' ' Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour." DESERTED VILLAGE. IT is time that the reader should become better acquainted -with the Head Master... | |
 | Pictor (pseud.) - 1848 - 118 ページ
...B. is happy in the possession of "the victory that overcometh the world," and therefore "Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart has learn' d to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise." The imagination of the poet has... | |
 | Joachim Fernau - 1848 - 736 ページ
...brother's hospitality. A man he was to all the country dear ; And poising rich with forty pound* a year. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place ; Unpmctis'd he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims... | |
 | John Hunter - 1848 - 224 ページ
...embrace thee !" JS Mill. 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 changed, nor wished to change his place. Goldsmith. Well we may afford Our givers their own gifts, and large bestow From large bestowed. Milton.... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 ページ
...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 changed, nor wished to change, his place , Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, » By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other... | |
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