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... De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence - Seite 134von Robert Plumer Ward - 1827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the 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 disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A... | |
| 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,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 Seiten
...been to be called a good singer. LESSON XLI. The Country Clergyman.—GOLDSMITH. 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... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...to be called a good singer. LESSON XLI. The Country Clergyman. — GOLDSMITH. — 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made. . . . 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... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 Seiten
...light of light! OLIVER GOLDSMITH. [from The DtterUd Village.} THE VILLAGE PREACHER. 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... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 458 Seiten
...local evidences of its ancient appropriation. In some parts of this spot, now uncultivated, but • where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild," my companion pointed out to me in a state of nature many of the most beautiful plants which we cultivate... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 458 Seiten
...strong local evidences of its ancient appropriation. In some parts of this spot, now uncultivated, but , where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild," my companion pointed out to me in a state of nature many of the most "beautiful plants which we cultivate... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 Seiten
...She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the 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 disclose, ^ The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A... | |
| Sir James Prior - 1837 - 558 Seiten
...the Poet has painted with fearful accuracy what his father's house was to be — " 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." And... | |
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