 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. Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand...  The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 134by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1854 - 311 pagesFull view - About this book
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...hand unbarred the shutter, The clammy lips of fever smiled The welcome which they could not utter. " Sit in the Vicar's seat ; you'll hear The doctrine...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid ? look down, And construe on the slab before you,... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 516 pages
...For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid ? — look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - American poetry - 1902 - 508 pages
...For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid? — look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...I look For haunts in which my boyhood trilled, — The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I the k ye comes líame. cow speedwell marsh-marigold When the kye comes hame, When the kye comes ; Ii holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted up for gentry. Sit in (lie Vicar's seat :... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 682 pages
...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...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid ?— look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...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...are fitted up for gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat : you 'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1909 - 284 pages
...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...hundred people more, And pews are fitted up for gentry. 7 Sit in the Vicar's seat : you '11 hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose... | |
 | Oswald John Fredeick Crawford - 1910 - 240 pages
...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...entry ; It holds three hundred people more, And pews nre fitted up for gentry. Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian.... | |
 | Beatrix F. Cresswell - Church buildings - 1912 - 254 pages
...cannot help thinking that it must have been of the new West Teignmouth church that he wrote the lines: The church is larger than before You reach it by a...entry It holds three hundred people more And pews have been set up for gentry. Lord Exmouth died at Teignmouth, but is buried at Christow, and after... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1913 - 1048 pages
...For haunts in which my boyhood trifled, — The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climb'd, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid ? — look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
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