 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...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...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change, his place : Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village ruth itself, and everlasting love Grows in this breast,...Oitoo. Take, take me all ; inquire into my heart You k bis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to'change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...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 ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dt change his place;... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1831 - 294 pages
...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...a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Noi e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his pl-jce • Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country, dear, Í And passing rich with forty pounds a year ! Remote from towns, he ran his god!y race, îïor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1832 - 366 pages
...have no particular objections, I will light my sheroot," &c. &c. &c. CHAPTER XVI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Fiction - 1982 - 228 pages
...pounds a year: cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), where the local vicar is described as: '. . . to all the country dear, /And passing rich with forty pounds a year. . .' (Collected Works, IV, p. 293, ll. 141-2). The portrait goes on to describe his fixity, integrity... | |
 | Leslie J. Francis - Clergy - 1989 - 244 pages
...along.' HOWARD SPRING (1889—1965) 52. There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...self-perceived, his life corresponds to a perennial ideal, from Chaucer on down, of the rural parson who is "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year" (Deserted Village, 11. 141-42.). Loss and death do of course occur in Selborne, but always in a context... | |
 | Robert H. Bremner - Social Science - 260 pages
...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... | |
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A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year... 
