 | James Parton - English poetry - 1884 - 732 pages
...And call the milk-maids Houris; That I could be a boy again — THE VICAR. W. MACKWOBTH PRATD SOMK years ago, ere Time and Taste Had turned our parish...known as scurvy, The man who lost his way between St Marys' Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the Green, And guided to the Parson's Wicket... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1886 - 878 pages
...LIFE AND MANNERS. PART IL (Eros, 1S26-1882.) EVEM-DAY CHARACIERS. I.—THE VICAR. SOME years ago, ero Time and Taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as. littlo known as scurvy, The man who lost his way between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always... | |
 | 1888 - 1022 pages
...beautiful for Demos the iron-handed as for Croesus with his gold. THE VICAR. BY WINTHROP M. PKAED. SOME years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our...his way between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket AVas always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Hack flew the bolt of lissom... | |
 | Austin Dobson, Frederick Locker-Lampson, Winthrop Mackworth Praed - English poetry - 1892 - 92 pages
...worthy thy worship, — confound But envied Lord Nigel's felicity. him ! Frederick Locker. THE VICAR. SOME years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our...across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. "AND GUIDED TO THE PARSON'S WICKET.'' Back flew the bolt of lissom lath ; Fair Margaret, in her tidy... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...Sheriffs and Recorders. The following is a good example of Praed's more serious productions : THE VICAR. Some years ago, ere Time and Taste Had turned our...known as scurvy, The man who lost his way between Saint Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...his models with a kindly eye. The picture of The Vicar is charming : " Some years ago, ere time or taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel...across the Green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. . . . " His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses ; It slipped from... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 508 pages
...heavenly host; She's earned a rest as well as I," Says I to Dibdin's ghost. Eugene Field THE VICAR Some years ago, ere Time and Taste Had turned our...Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 506 pages
...heavenly host; She's earned a rest as well as I," Says I to Dibdin's ghost. Eugene Field THE VICAR Some years ago, ere Time and Taste Had turned our...Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, Was always shown across the green, And guided to the Parson's wicket. Back flew the bolt of lissom... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 682 pages
...Fisherman Could tell the reason why ! EVERY-DAY CHARACTERS. 1829. WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED. I. THE VICAR. SOME years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnal Park was Darnal Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between... | |
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SOME years ago, ere time and taste Had turned our parish topsy-turvy, When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste, And roads as little known as scurvy, The man who lost his way, between St. Mary's Hill and Sandy Thicket, Was always shown across the green, And guided... 
