| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 290 pages
...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...the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his Unskilful... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 428 pages
...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'd to change his place;... | |
| Allen Fisk - English language - 1822 - 192 pages
...meaning of every or each , at, 4 They cost five shillings a dozen ;' that is, ' every dozen.' " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. — Goldsmith. that is, ' every year.' There is a particular use of the indefinite article... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...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 modest...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... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...the garden smil'ii, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs ena norwish'd to change hisplace; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...he garden tmil'd, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild ; There, where a tew torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year, Aemote from towns he ran his godly race, [place ; Nor e'er had chang't), nor wish'd to change, his... | |
| 1824 - 444 pages
...the garden smil'd, And stUl where many a. garden-flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest...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... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1824 - 268 pages
...no particular objections, I will light my sheroot,» etc. etc. etc. CHAPTER HI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear. And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. DRYDEN,/rom Chaucer. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the sanguinary... | |
| Walter Scott - 1824 - 240 pages
...no particular objections, 1 will light my sheroot," Sic. &c. &c. CHAPTER XVI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. DRYDEN, from Chaucer. MRS. DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered by the... | |
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