 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
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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 aims... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 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 aims... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 ページ
...will bring a man to want." " Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal." — BYRO.V. " Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place." / . GOLDSMITH. " He ought to have been so, at least; for he was literally... | |
 | 1900 - 490 ページ
...never leave him without feeling better, humbler, and that life held sweetness and peace for us all. Remote from towns he ran his Godly race, Nor e'er had changed, or wished to change his place, Unskilful he to fawn or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 ページ
...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 fashioned...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 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...prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The... | |
 | Donald Worster - 1994 - 528 ページ
...investments. His simple life much resembled that of Oliver Goldsmith's pastor in "The Deserted Village": "Remote from towns, he ran his godly race, / Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place."2 White's fame came after his death at the age of seventythree, and it was based entirely on... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 ページ
...passed at home in the benevolent exercise of the Christian duties, with his own restless vagrant career: Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. To us the whole character seems traced as it were in an expiatory spirit ; as if, conscious of his... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 ページ
...visit of mere ceremony, but one in which cordiality and hospitality were felt as well as delayed." "Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change hLs "place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour : For... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 662 ページ
...his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; 90 Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain; The... | |
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