 | Charles Collyns Walkey - 1868 - 76 страници
...garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village pastor's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country...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... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 страници
...modest mansion rose. * The first half stanza of this song is old, the rest is mine.Eobert Burns. A man he was 'to all the country dear, And passing rich...e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (English master, Madras College, St. Andrews.) - 1868 - 138 страници
...fountain of honour ; hence he possesses the power of conferring all titles and dignities. 4. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 страници
...forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot there be, Both mongrel, Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 200 страници
...innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. The Deserted Village. THE VILLAGE PREACHER. NEAR yonder copse where once the garden smiled, And...Nor 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1918 - 186 страници
...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...Nor 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... | |
 | Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 436 страници
...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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 страници
...charms are fled. 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... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 458 страници
...place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, 5 And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote...other aims his heart had learned to prize — More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid... | |
 | William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919 - 456 страници
...place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, 5 And passing rich with forty pounds a year. Remote...power By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour; 10 Far other aims his heart had learned to prize — More skilled to raise the wretched than to rise.... | |
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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... 
