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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... "
A Third Poetry Book - Page 88
1889 - 521 pages
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The National Reader: A Selection of Exercises in Reading and Speaking ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 278 pages
...garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the pluce disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose....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...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...and 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...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 place;...
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The Book of Gems: Pomfret to Bloomfield

Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dt change his place;...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

1837 - 552 pages
...had been present, the poet has paioted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be— ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose.' " A visitor to this spot will be tempted to believe, from the ignorance he finds among many of the neighbouring...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original ..., Volume 1

Sir James Prior - 1837 - 554 pages
...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose." And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 21

1837 - 536 pages
...had been present, the poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be— ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose.' And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,...
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The life of Oliver Goldsmith, Volume 1

sir James Prior - 1837 - 550 pages
...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be— " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose." And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,...
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The bee. Essays. An enquiry into the present state of polite learning in ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 pages
...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — ' Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled. And...disclose, The village Preacher's modest mansion rose.' " Set LIFE, vol. 1. p. 19. THE BEE. [The BEE, a weekly paper, commenced October the 6th, and terminated...
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The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: From a Variety of Original Sources, Volume 2

Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 pages
...had been present, the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And...disclose, The Village Preacher's modest mansion rose." And we contemplate the realization of the melancholy scene as we do the poem of the unfortunate Falconer,...
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