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Page 181 - 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 forty pounds a year...
Page 71 - we know what we are, we know not what we may be. — And now, Mr. Tyrrel, I have been your sibyl to guide you through this Elysinm of ours, I think, in reward, I deserve a little confidence in return." " If I had any to bestow, which could be in the slightest degree interesting to your ladyship,