...investments. His simple life much resembled that of Oliver Goldsmith's pastor in "The Deserted Village": "Remote from towns, he ran his godly race, / Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place."2 White's fame came after his death at the age of seventythree, and it was based entirely on...

...remaining vestige of what was once a garden, is always the ' garden flower that grows wild.' A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich...year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor o'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place . . . The benevolent mind cannot but yield its hearty...

...visit of mere ceremony, but one in which cordiality and hospitality were felt as well as delayed." "Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change hLs "place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour : For...

...Plumptre admits, "what was beauty to a man who could just but live" (1, 5). Goldsmith's nostalgic curate, "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year, " retreats even farther into the mythic past as keen-eyed women writers address the matter of the competence....

...Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village," 1770, 1. 142. The poet described the "village preacher" as a man "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year." See Collected Works Of Oliver Goldsmith. Vol. 4. 1966, p. 293. 200.25-29 the words of Ruth... me']...

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...Somewhat later, Goldsmith describes the village preacher in The Deserted Village as follows: A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. (As a comparison, note that this poem was itself published in 1770 at a cost of two shillings!) 77....

...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...e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims...

...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...e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; Far other aims...