| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...disclose, The village-preacher's modest mansion rose. A man lie 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'd to change his place : Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...And ftill where many a garden-flower grows wild— There, where a few torn (limbs the place difclofe, The village preacher's modeft manfion rofe : A man he was to all the country dear, And patting rich with forty pounds a-year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd,... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...' 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'd to change his place ; " Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, " By... | |
| John Skinner - 1809 - 694 pages
...Goldsmith's description of the " Village Preacher :" " 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'd to change, his place !" The Reverend JOHN SKINNER, for nearly fir... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...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'd to change his place Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...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'd to change his place .;. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...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'd to change, hi* Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, [place; By doctrines... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...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'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...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'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, . , ' By... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...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'd to change his place s Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
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