| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1770 - 44 pages
...And flill where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn flirubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear, And pafling rich with forty pounds a year; THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 9 Remote from towns he ran his godly race,... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1770 - 604 pages
...flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn ftirubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeil manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear, And parting rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had changed,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn fhrubs the place difclofu, The village preacher's modell manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear, And pafling rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - 70 pages
...And ftill where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn fhrubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wifhed to change his place j Unpra&ifed he to fawn, or feek for power, By do&rines... | |
| John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...remaining veftige of what was once a garden, is always the ' garden fewer that grows « wild: A man he was, to all the country dear, And paffing rich...year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place ; Unfkilful he to fawn, or feek for power, By doflrines... | |
| 1785 - 304 pages
...And ftill where many a garden flow'r grows wild : There, where a few torn fhrubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man...country dear, And paffing rich with forty pounds a year ; Rc:note from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place, Unfkilful... | |
| English poetry - 1785 - 320 pages
...fiow'r grows wild : There, where a few torn fhrubsthe place difclofe, The village preacher's mode ft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear,...rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns be ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd, nor wifh'd to change his place, Unfkilfol he to fawn, or... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...And ftill where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn ihrubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. A man he was, to all the country dear. And palfing. rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd,... | |
| English poetry - 1785 - 316 pages
...And ftill where many a garden flow'r grows wild : There, where a few torn fhrubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe. . A man he was, to all the country dear, And palling rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor ere had chang'd,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...There, where a few torn flirubs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion role. A man he, was, to all the country dear, And paffing rich — with forty pounds a-year. Remote from towns, he ran his godly race ; Nor e'er had chang'd,. nor wifh'd to change his... | |
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