 | Walter Scott - 1832 - 366 pages
...have no particular objections, I will light my sheroot," &c. &c. &c. CHAPTER XVI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the... | |
 | James Rush - Music - 1833 - 432 pages
...come. To those whose elocution consists in such riddles, I propose the following from Goldsmith. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing "rich with forty pounds a year. Now let them guess, or dispute, for the rest of their lives, whether the emphasis I pass by... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1833 - 240 pages
...meaning of retry or each; as, " They cost five shillings a dozen ;" that is,, ' retry dozen.' " A man he was to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a year !" that is, ' every year.' 3. When several adjectives are connected, and express the various... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 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... | |
 | Михаил Николаевич Загоскин - Russia - 1834 - 232 pages
...the garden smiled, A nd still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a lew torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...rose ; % A man he was to all the country dear, And passing-rich with forty pounds a year." GOLDSMITH. YOURY and Alexis, much against their will, followed... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 362 pages
...Impatient attendance in these abodes of misery, is admirably described."- — JEFFREY.] (2) [" A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." — GOLDSMITH.] • A sportsman keen, he shoots through half the day, (') And, skill'd at... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond - English language - 1835 - 240 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.' — Goldsmith OF RULE XIII. — The adjective pronouns this, that, these, and those, with... | |
 | John Grigg Hewlett - 1835 - 254 pages
...any of that calling more fully than to this worthy individual : — " Remote from towns he ran bis 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 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... 
