 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...pensive plain. 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...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change, his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place...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 doctrines fashion'd... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...Tflsk."! FKOM 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...changed, nor wished to change his place , Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still...Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place , Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, Hy doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Fur other... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...nightingale had made. 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...changed, nor wished to change, his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...Cor. xiii, 11. 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...changed, nor wished to change his place. Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 pages
...pensive plain ! 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...pensive plain. 1 Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place...Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changM, nor wish'd to change his place : Unpractised he to fawn, 3 or seek for power, By doctrines... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled, And still...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;... | |
 | 1855 - 248 pages
...PREACHER. GOLDSMITH. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place...he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had change'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
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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... 
