 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...  The Sunday Book of Poetry - Side 142af Cecil Frances Alexander - 1865 - 318 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 sider
...hand, than mingle in the proudest assemblies. And, above all, startingly true, beneath my feet was Yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild. " A painting from the life could not be more exact. * The stubborn currantbush'... | |
 | William Child Green - 1826 - 606 sider
...copse, where once the garden tmil'd, And still where many a garden 6ow'r grows wild, • , There, w here a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose;" but which, at the present epoch, was accounted noble for the sake of the hospitality displayed by its... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 384 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his pi ,ce ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, , Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his plice : Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 sider
...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 sider
...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,... | |
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