...There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man friend followed signal? with a rattle so irresistibly comic, that a-year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'dt change his place;...

...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,...a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Noi e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his pl-jce • Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power,...

...place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country, dear, Í And passing rich with forty pounds a year ! Remote from towns, he ran his god!y race, îïor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek...

...have no particular objections, I will light my sheroot," &c. &c. &c. CHAPTER XVI. THE CLERGYMAN. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a-year. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. MRS DODS'S conviction, that her friend Tyrrel had been murdered...

...meaning of retry or each; as, " They cost five shillings a dozen ;" that is,, ' retry dozen.' " A man he was to all the country dear, " And passing rich with forty pounds a year !" that is, ' every year.' 3. When several adjectives are connected, and express the various qualities...

...come. To those whose elocution consists in such riddles, I propose the following from Goldsmith. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing "rich with forty pounds a year. Now let them guess, or dispute, for the rest of their lives, whether the emphasis I pass by the faults...

...me I become an interested bystander, only one degree removed. CHAPTER XVI A Pioneer Preacher "A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." — CMdmith. EV. Charles Wesley Wells, a Methodist minister, gave many interesting experiences he had...

...pounds a year: cf. Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), where the local vicar is described as: '. . . to all the country dear, /And passing rich with forty pounds a year. . .' (Collected Works, IV, p. 293, ll. 141-2). The portrait goes on to describe his fixity, integrity...

...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...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 fashioned to...

...self-perceived, his life corresponds to a perennial ideal, from Chaucer on down, of the rural parson who is "to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year" (Deserted Village, 11. 141-42.). Loss and death do of course occur in Selborne, but always in a context...