 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...pensive plain ! Fear yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild — There, where a few torn shrubs the...towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change, his place ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion' d to... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...poem : — " Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And etill wheru 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 chang'd, nor wished to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...THE Couitrsr 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...Nor e'er had 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... | |
 | 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...Nor e'er had 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... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...Village.) " Near yonder copse, W where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place...country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Eemote from towns he ran his godly race Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to ehange his place ; Unskilful... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...forced, in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep...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 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... | |
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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... 
