Alack, the change! In vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than before, You reach it by a carriage entry: It holds three hundred people more,... The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 140by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1866Full view - About this book
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry : It holds three hundred...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose tone is very Ciceronian. 172 Where is the old man laid 1 — look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
| American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...succeeded by one of those 'snowy-banded dilettante delicate-handed priests ' whom the Laureate loves not. ' Sit in the Vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine...phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid 7 — look down, And construe on the slab before yon, " Hicjacet GuLiBLMU8 BROWN, Fir milla non demandas... | |
| American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone," we remember Praed in " The Vicar : " " Sit in the Vicar's scat ; you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose style is very Ciceronian. " Where is. the old man laid 1 Look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more : And pews are fitted up for gentry. 58 Sit in the vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more : And | iews are fitted up for gentry. Sit in the vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian,... | |
| Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...trjckfing brook, , The trees Г climb'd, the beds I rirled; The church is larger than before ; ' , You reach it by a carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more : And pews nre fitted up for gentry. Sit in the Vica.r'8 seat: you'll heat The doctrine of a uinile Johnian, •... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The church is larger than before, You reach it by a carriage entry; It holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted for the gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian; Whose hand is... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 324 pages
...the trickling brook, The trees 1 climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry : It holds three hundred...seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Where is the old man laid ?— look down, And construe on the slab before you, Hie JACET GULIELMUS... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled ! The church is larger than before, You reach it by a carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted for the gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian ; Whose hand... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...entry; It holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted for the gentry. Sit in the Vicar's scat: you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian; Whose hand is white, whose voice is clear, Whose tone is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid^ Look down And construe on... | |
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