 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...  Guide to the army - competitive examinations - Pagina 39door Alexander Hadden Hutchinson - 1861Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 268 pagina’s
...no particular objections, I will light my sheroot,» etc. etc. etc. CHAPTER HI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. DRYDEN,/rom Chaucer. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the... | |
 | 1824 - 828 pagina’s
...the clergyman, to whom he dedicated his poem, ' The Traveller,' and whom he has depicted as • a man to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a year." THE Westmoreland newspapers record the recent death of an industrious and taving clergyman, of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagina’s
...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man o a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd norwish'd to change hisplace;... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pagina’s
...There, where a tew 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, Aemote from towns he ran his godly race, [place ; Nor e'er had chang't), nor wish'd to change,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...manor, Sir ? — " The manor ! hold, he ery'd, Not that, — I eannot part with that" — and dy'd. preeepts of a father learn'd, Perhaps I then the eoaehman's fare had earn'd, For lesser boy : Sueh in those moments as in all the past, " Oh, save my eountry, Heaven !" shall be your last. EPISTLE... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pagina’s
...There where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village .preacher'^ modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich, with forty pounds a year ; / Remote from town's he ran his godly rac«, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his plact,... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 pagina’s
...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. That is, " every year." (he expression is equivalent to, " He is more warlike than learned... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pagina’s
...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 changed, nor wish'd to change his place... | |
 | 1826 - 300 pagina’s
...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 vvish'd to change his place ;... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pagina’s
...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, hi* place. Unskilful... | |
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