...weep til] morn ; She only left of all tne harmless train; The sad historian of the pensive plain ! 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...

...had been present, the poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his lather's house was to be: — ' 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...

...Vicarage House. " 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." And immediately adjoining, was the school-house of Stowe, which was also pulled down when the pleasuregrounds...

...predecessor, " Capability Brown." Within the present enclosure also once stood the Vicarage House. " 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...

...— These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. 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...

...CHAPTER VI. " Quis desiderio sit pudor, aut modus Tarn cari capitis." HOR. Lib. 1, Od. 24. " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year." GOLDSMITH. PURSUANT to the resolution I had formed on the preceding night, I lost no time...

...easy. In his pretty poem " The Deserted Village," Goldsmith says of the wreck of the Parsonage house, " There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village Preacher's modest mansion rose." But far more modest, far more fearful of the public gaze, is the venerable Council Hall of ancient...

...miserly pay. Goldsmith's preacher bears a strong resemblance to Chaucer's Parson in The Canterbury Tales. 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...

...extracts tedious. 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. This is a fine natural stroke — We see the 'copse,' the 'torn shrubs,' and the ' scatter' d flowers.'...

...frontispiece, "The sad historian of the pensive plain" (136). His "flowery tale" replaces the village garden: "Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, / And still where many a garden flower grows wild" (137-38). His reiterated "sweet" is even more emphatic in Goldsmith; his...