 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 194 ページ
...harmless tram, 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,...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 ページ
...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,...Remote from 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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 ページ
...weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...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... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 ページ
...will thy lay." Never, never, can that lay perish, which contains such lines as the following. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...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 to the... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 ページ
...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...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 to the... | |
 | 1824 - 444 ページ
...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...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 fashion"d to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...till morn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Nearyonder lished by William 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 ページ
...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 - 160 ページ
...weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, [place ; By doetrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 ページ
...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... | |
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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... 
