 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...  Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary - Page 314by James Whiteside - 1868 - 478 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 384 pages
...her departure, as her house. When Constance came, it was overrun with weeds, yet it was a spot — " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." It had been known and loved by Constance in her childhood, when ,she visited it with her aunt, and... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...VILLAGE PREACHER. NEAR yonder copse, where once 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 mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich—with... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 pages
...youthful pride has been to be called a good singer. LESSON XLI. The Country Clergyman.—GOLDSMITH. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...country dear, And passing rich, with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his pi... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...started and awaked. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. GOLDSMITH. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There...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, hi* place.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...started and awaked. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. GOLDSMITH. Near yonder copse, where once the garden simFii, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There...A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich^with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns, he ran his godly race,w NOT e'er had chang'd, nor... | |
 | 1828 - 398 pages
...VILLAGE CLERGYMAN. NZAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The Tillage preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 pages
...youthful pride has been to be called a good singer. LESSON XLI. The Country Clergyman. — GOLDSMITH. — NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...country dear, And passing rich, with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, , Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...long, a wider circle made, And manylangvaged nations has surveyed. /./. Near yonder copse, where once a garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. Goldsmith. Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went, Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent, I learned... | |
 | John Brewster - 1829 - 632 pages
...occasion. " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden florecr grows wild ; There where a few torn shrubs the place...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose." ROBERT HENDERSON, Of Stockton, gentleman. " This person, after the death of his father, Jeremiah Henderson,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. . . . Of any comfort, or once wished to see The light of...struck this moment blind, and lose Your blessed sight, a year; Remote from towns, he ran bis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to'change his place;... | |
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