 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. JSear yonder copse, where oace the garden smiled; And still where many a garden flower...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Bf'mote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, 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 chang'd,nor wish'd to- change his place... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1873 - 536 pages
...to him, while officiating, for nearly forty years, as a missionary at Kailua and Ewn : — " ' A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; KemotQ from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. Unskillful... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden...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 to the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...only left of all the harmless tram, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden...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 to the... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 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, The village-preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with... | |
 | Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...meaning of every or each , at, 4 They cost five shillings a dozen ;' that is, ' every dozen.' " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. — Goldsmith. that is, ' every year.' There is a particular use of the indefinite article which deserves... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany, Economic - 1822 - 406 pages
...often seen this plant in situations that have called to mind those lines of Goldsmith, — " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." Gerard describes several species and varieties of marigolds that were grown in our gardens previously... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...perish, which contains such lines as the following. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...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...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... | |
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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... 
