 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...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...country dear, And passing rich, with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, • Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his... | |
 | Book - English poetry - 1847 - 216 pages
...COUNTRY PARSON. 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...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 wished to change, his place... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...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 wished to change, his place... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, NoVe'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, 40 And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...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 wished to change, his place... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, 40 And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had mode. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, upon the stage. In him Demosthenes was heard again...taught him her Athenian strain ; She clothed him with a changed, nor wished to change, his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...pensive plain. ;'. 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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change, displace; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...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 wished to change his place;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...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 —...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... 
