 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pic« her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She onlv left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near vender copse, where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 476 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...forc'd in age, (01; bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...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 village .preacher'^ modest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...wretehed matron, fore'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek thwith put themselves in seareh - )f Hudibras upon...Knight befel; For sueh, Crowdero being fast In dunge eopse, where onee the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 300 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...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 village preacher's modest... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...which was spent on the continent, settled in London, where he died. CHARACTER OF A 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... | |
 | Henry Charles William Angelo - England - 1828 - 532 pages
...left, sense strengthening with his age, The faithful Mentor of the sinking stage. Near yonder church, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, VOL. I. V There, where the opening shops the place disclose, The little manager's snug mansion rose.... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...rest ; We part with life— awake ! and there The jewel in our breast ! THE 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... | |
 | John Brewster - 1829 - 632 pages
...lines have been often quoted, but were never more literally applied than on the present 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...the plashy pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling е." — "I don't know that," replied the wife; "...suppose, my dear," cried he, " we shall have it all i arden emil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the... | |
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She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the... 
