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
| 1824 - 378 Seiten
...to the valley called Lord Anson's Park. On our way we found numbers of European shrubs and herbs, " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." And in the half-ruined hedges, which denote the boundaries of former fields, we found apple, pear,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder eopse, where onee the garden smil'd, laurels seem'd to grow No where so green as on his brow. tom shrubs the plaee diselose, The village preaeher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...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 disclose, The village .preacher'^ modest mansion rose. A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich, with forty... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 Seiten
...hand, than mingle in the proudest assemblies. And, above all, startingly true, beneath my feet was Yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden-flower grows wild. " A painting from the life could not be more exact. * The stubborn currantbush'... | |
| 1826 - 300 Seiten
...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 vvish'd to change his place ; Unpractis'd he to fawn, or seek for pow'r, By doctrines... | |
| 1826 - 438 Seiten
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| William Child Green - 1826 - 606 Seiten
...copse, where once the garden tmil'd, And still where many a garden 6ow'r grows wild, • , There, w here a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose;" but which, at the present epoch, was accounted noble for the sake of the hospitality displayed by its... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 384 Seiten
...her departure, as her house. When Constance came, it was overrun with weeds, yet it was a spot — " Where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild." It had been known and loved by Constance in her childhood, when ,she visited it with her aunt, and... | |
| John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 Seiten
...VILLAGE PREACHER. 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 disclose, The village-preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich—with... | |
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