 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 266 pages
...dismal walls : And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, 'passing rich with forty pounds a year?' Ah no ! a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike...the morning, and to feasts the night : None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide ; A sportsman keen,... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - 1872 - 338 pages
...dismal walls : And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, ' passing rich with forty pounds a year ' ? Ah ! no, a shepherd of a different stock, And far...the morning, and to feasts the night. None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide; A sportsman keen,... | |
 | Robert Bateman Paul - 1872 - 310 pages
...supporter of abuses, which were draining the very life-blood out of the Church in my younger days, nor " A jovial youth who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask." Neither does " Low Churchman " or " Evangelical " mean a zealous and wellmeaning but imperfectly educated... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...Village, Book I : "And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He 'passing rich, with forty pounds a year?' Ah ! no ; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock," &c. 142. Forty pounds seems to have commonly been a curate's income about the middle of the last century.... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1874 - 822 pages
...consolation : — And docs not he, the pious man, appear, He, " passing rich with forty pounds a year ? " 'Ah ! no ; a shepherd of a different stock, And far...little flock : A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's taik As much as God or man can fairly ask ; The rest he gives to loves and lubonrs light, To fields... | |
 | George Crabbe, A. C. Cunningham - 1877 - 568 pages
...dismal walls: And doth not he, the pious man, appear, *lle, " passing rich wirh forty pounds a year?" Ah ! no ; a shepherd of a different stock, And far...the morning, and to feasts the night; . None better skill d the noisy pack to guide, ' To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide; '. A sportsman keen,... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1878 - 704 pages
..."• Crabbe described the parish priest, in the ' Village,' as, A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday task As much as God or man can fairly ask : The rest...the morning, and to feasts the night. None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide. A sportsman keen,... | |
 | sir Spencer Walpole - 1879 - 786 pages
..._„ Crabbe described the parish priest, in the ' Village,' as, A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday task As much as God or man can fairly ask : The rest...the morning, and to feasts the night. None better skilled the noisy pack to guide, To urge their chase, to cheer them or to chide. A sportsman keen,... | |
 | Irving Van Wart - 1880 - 224 pages
...proceeded to summary punition of the culprits. H Sporting parson. A HARE HUNT. ' ' A JOVIAL priest, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask. None better skilled the noisy pack to guide ; To urge the chase, to cheer them, or to chide." — Crabte.... | |
 | E A. B - 1881 - 262 pages
...unfortunately, in those days a true picture of many of our surrounding clergy : ' A jovial youth, \vho thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask : The rest lie gives to love and labours light, To fields the morning, and to feasts the night ; None better skilled... | |
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passing rich with forty pounds a year?" Ah! no, a Shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock; A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task, As much as God or Man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light,... 
