| 1842 - 300 דפים
...thousands. maintained his independence, but performed many acts of hospitality and beneficence. " A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year." We know the obligation upon us, conveyed in language familiar to us from our youth up, to... | |
| 1843 - 184 דפים
...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 forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change his place... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 דפים
...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 forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wished to change his place... | |
| Cass Grove Barns - 1970 - 312 דפים
...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... | |
| Leslie J. Francis - 1989 - 244 דפים
...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 forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place;... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 378 דפים
...particular objections, I will light my sheroot,' etc. etc. etc. CHAPTER XVI THE CLERGYMAN A man he mas 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 by the... | |
| Robert H. Bremner - 260 דפים
...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 forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place;... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 דפים
...remaining vestige of what was once a garden, is always the ' garden flower that grows wild.' A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor o'er had chang'd, nor wish'd to change his place... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 דפים
...the whisp'ring wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 4153 The Deserted Village A man , abide with me. 6670 'Praise, my soul, the King of heaven' Father a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place.... | |
| Andrew I. Dale - 1999 - 714 דפים
...Somewhat later, Goldsmith describes the village preacher in The Deserted Village as follows: A man he was, to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. (As a comparison, note that this poem was itself published in 1770 at a cost of two shillings!)... | |
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