 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1914 - 532 ページ
...clergyman who ministered to the afflicted of his village : " A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday task, As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest...light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night. * * * A sportsman keen, he shouts through half the day, And, skilled at whist, devotes the night to... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1914 - 664 ページ
...stränget to tìie&e And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, ' passing rich with forty pounds a year? ' Ah ! no ; a shepherd of a different stock, And far...this little flock : A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday 's task As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and labours light,... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 ページ
...brother, but " a shepherd of a different stock," who hunts in the morning and plays whist at night — A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask. What can he do To raise the hope he feels not, or with zeal To combat fears that e'en the pious feel... | |
 | Frederick John Foakes-Jackson - 1916 - 366 ページ
...young clergyman who ministered to the afflicted of his village : "A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest...light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night. * * * A sportsman keen, he shouts through half the day, And, skilled at whist, devotes the night to... | |
 | Laura Johnson Wylie - 1916 - 272 ページ
...woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go." 1 Beside him stands the parish priest1 — "A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask." 4 1 The Village, I, 229. 1 Ibid., 232-9. 1 Ibid., 277-9. 4 Ibid., 306-7. Needless to say, his ministrations... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 ページ
...dismal walls: And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, 'passing rich with forty pounds a year?' Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike...the morning, and to feasts the night; None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide; A sportsman keen,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1920 - 398 ページ
...consolation : And does not he, the pious man, appear, He, " passing rich with forty pounds a year ? " Ah t no ; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike...the morning, and to feasts the night. None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them, or to chide ; A sportsman keen,... | |
 | Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1920 - 356 ページ
...those well-known lines on a country parson by a country parson which I cannot forbear from repeating : A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much...the morning, and to feasts the night ; None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide. A sportsman keen,... | |
 | Cyril Alington, John Doyle - 1921 - 270 ページ
...sympathetic hand, and it is he who describes the parish priest as — A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday task As much as God or man can fairly ask : The rest...light. To fields the morning and to feasts the night. There is no conceivable reason why a clerical historian should minimize the failure of his Church one... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 ページ
...walls ; And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, ' passing rich with forty pounds a year? ' 602 Ah ! no, a Shepherd of a different stock, And far...better skill'd the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chace, to cheer them or to chide ; A Sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day, And skill'd at... | |
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passing rich with forty pounds a year?" Ah! no, a Shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock; A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task, As much as God or Man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light,... 
