 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village-preacher's modest mansion rose. A man lie was, to all 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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from town* he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change bis place... | |
 | 1808 - 874 pages
...relative of Henry Brooke, feeling himfelf prefled by indigence formed a, defign of becoming author, NOTE. Remote from towns he ran his godly race,' Nor e'er had chang'd nor wilhed to changed h's place ; Unproflxed he to lawn or feek for pow'r, By doctrines fafhioned to the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...meaning of every or each : as, " They cost five shillings a dozen ;" that is, " every dozen." " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." Golthmttt. that is, " every year." There is a particular use of the indefinite article, which... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...garden smil'd, ' And still where many a garden flower grows wild, ' There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, ' The village preacher's modest...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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...once the garden gmir'd, Aud still where many a garden flow'r growl wild, TlicrtMuere a few torn shrub* the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he rail his godly race, Xor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...And still whm-inaii) a garden flow rgrowswilJ 'JTkTe, where a few torn shr ubs the place .1 it-close a-ycar ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wi^h'd to chnu'j.0, hi... | |
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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... 
