 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 páginas
...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 wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 140 A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power 145 By doctrines fashioned to... | |
 | 1853 - 560 páginas
...scrutiny of years ; Praise justly due to those that I describe. COWPER. — [From " The Tflsk."! FKOM NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place , Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 páginas
...noble and sovereign bird. THE VILLAGE PEEACHEE. (From tlie Deserted Village.) " Near yonder copse, W where once the garden smiled, And still where many...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 ; Unskilful... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - 348 páginas
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rote. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, , To seek her nightly shed, and weep...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 to the... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 páginas
...than a matter of finding things. There's wood to be cut. Come along.' HOWARD SPRING (1889—1965) 52. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,...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 fashioned... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - 260 páginas
...miserly pay. Goldsmith's preacher bears a strong resemblance to Chaucer's Parson in The Canterbury Tales. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...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 to the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 4153 The Deserted Village A man , abide with me. 6670 'Praise, my soul, the King of...spares us; Well our feeble frame he knows ... Praise h wished to change his place. 4 1 54 The Deserted Village He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 324 páginas
...THE VILLAGE PREACHER From the 'Deserted Village 1 NEAE yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change, his place Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims... | |
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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... 
