 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 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...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... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...meaning of every or each : as, " 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." (he expression is equivalent to, " He is more warlike than learned... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...valley called Lord Anson's Park. On our way we found numbers of European shrubs and herbs, " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." And in the half-ruined hedges, which denote the boundaries of former fields, we found apple, pear,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder eopse, where onee the garden smil'd, laurels seem'd to grow No where so green as on his brow. tom shrubs the plaee diselose, The village preaeher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...pensive plain ! Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village .preacher'^ modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich, with forty... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, 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 vvish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...The Christian's course in this world is represented in Scripture as a race which is set before him ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place. GOLDSMITH. Course may be used in connexion with the object passed over... | |
 | William Child Green - 1826 - 606 pages
...copse, where once the garden tmil'd, And still where many a garden 6ow'r grows wild, • , There, w here a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose;" but which, at the present epoch, was accounted noble for the sake of the hospitality displayed by its... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...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 forty pounds a-year. Remote from towns, he ran his godly race ; Nor e'er had chang'd, nor... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 384 pages
...departure, as her house. When Constance came, it was overrun with weeds, yet it was a spot — " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." It had been known and loved by Constance in her childhood, when ,she visited it with her aunt, and... | |
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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... 
