...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 whist, devotes...

...VILLAGE CLERGYMAN. '• ! . i .- . 1 ' . »*.; (I i NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ;...disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Neir e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place. There,-...

...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 the numeral...

...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...flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the pluce disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And...

...presented in bold relief, "they" would require emphasis. In the following couplet from "Goldsmith," "A man he was to all the country dear, And " passing" rich with forty pounds a year," if "passing" is taken in a superlative sense, it would require a distinctive emphasis; if the clergyman...

...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...

...pounds a year: cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), where the local vicar is described as: '. . . to all the country dear, /And passing rich with forty pounds a year. . .' (Collected Works, IV, p. 293, ll. 141-2). The portrait goes on to describe his fixity, integrity...

...self-perceived, his life corresponds to a perennial ideal, from Chaucer on down, of the rural parson who is "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year" (Deserted Village, 11. 141-42.). Loss and death do of course occur in Selborne, but always in a context...

...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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned...

...readers will think the following extracts tedious. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There,...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.'...