 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 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...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 to the... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...VILLAGE PEEACHEE. (From tlie Deserted Village.) " Near yonder copse, W 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 ; Eemote from towns he ran his godly race Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to ehange his place... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...I describe. COWPER. — [From " The Tflsk."! FKOM NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, 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 changed, nor wished to change his place... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shnihs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...THE VILLAGE PREACHER (From The Deserted Village.) NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There,...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change, his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1914 - 616 pages
...think it necessary to admire only what is modern. 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;... | |
 | Augustus Hill Kelley - 1914 - 472 pages
...can carry a message to Garcia. THE VILLAGE PREACHER Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, 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 chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place;... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - 1915 - 328 pages
...cropped and his beard long. — HUGO : Les Miserables. 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 goodly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place:... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - 1915 - 328 pages
...cropped and his beard long. — HUGO: Les Miserables. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, 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 goodly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place:... | |
 | 1916 - 792 pages
...train, 133 The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, rk ! now I hear them, — Ding-dong, bell ! country dear, 141 And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race,... | |
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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... 
