 | 1827 - 452 pages
...intelligent agreeable companion in the Curate, who, as Dr. Goldsmith observes on a like occasion, •' Is to all the country dear. And passing- rich, with forty pounds a year.* The first curiosity we were conducted to was Hurtlepot, about 80 yards above the chapel. It is a round... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1819 - 398 pages
...the Beau Monde, would not only prove too much of the Gothic, but romantic in the extreme : — 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, Nor. e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ;... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 pages
...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 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; Unskilful... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1819 - 120 pages
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The villageipreacher's modest mansion rose. A tnau he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...'where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man Tie was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his plare ; Unskilful... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...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 forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chapg'd, nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful... | |
 | 1873 - 536 pages
...to him, while officiating, for nearly forty years, as a missionary at Kailua and Ewn : — " ' A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; KemotQ from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place. Unskillful... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...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 forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Pv7or e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...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 forty pounds a year; Bf'mote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 pages
...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 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... | |
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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... 
