 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...  The Youth's Progressive Spelling and Reading Book - Seite 143von Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 168 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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 | Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1869 - 842 Seiten
...easy. In his pretty poem " The Deserted Village," Goldsmith says of the wreck of the Parsonage house, " There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village Preacher's modest mansion rose." But far more modest, far more fearful of the public gaze, is the venerable Council Hall of ancient... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1982 - 228 Seiten
...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... | |
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