 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 436 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 shrnbs the place disclose. The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all the conntry... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 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...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...train, The sad historian of the pensive plaiu. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, -'till where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place s Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 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...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; llcmote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | James M'Donald - Spellers - 1815 - 170 pages
...once the garden srail'd,And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few thorn shrubs the place disclose,. The village preacher's...all the country dear, And passing rich with forty p iu'nds a year ; Remote from towns- he ran his go iiy race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1816 - 240 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,...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change bis place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fash... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Authors - 1816 - 298 pages
...difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear, And paffing rich with forty pounds a year : Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place. Unfkillful he to fawn or feek for power, By doftrines fafhion'd... | |
 | John Carey - English language - 1816 - 300 pages
...» Their splendid domes and busy streets declare Their firmest fort, a king's parental care. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich * with forty pounds a year. Iambic verses of eight syllables — in other respects, pure latnbics--^- but containing examples of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 192 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smilM, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...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 pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...BY GOLDSMITH. NEAH yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still 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 changed, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
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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... 
