 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...  Poems - Seite 49von Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 216 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jonathan Duncan - 1825 - 274 Seiten
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour : Far other aims his heart had Icarn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. . Thus to relieve the wretched... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...or seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart bad learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain, The long-remember'd beggar... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...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 wish'd to change his place ; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 Seiten
...Christian's course in this world is represented in Scripture as a race which is set before him ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wish'd to change his place. GOLDSMITH. Course may be used in connexion with the object passed over... | |
 | 1828 - 398 Seiten
...or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise ; His house was known to all the vagrant train' He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain The long-remember'd beggar... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 Seiten
...seek for pow'r, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; . Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize, • More bent to raise the wretched,, than to rise. His house was known to all the vagrant train; He chid their wand'rings, but reliev'd their pain. The long-remember'd beggar... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 Seiten
...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 pi ,ce ; Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour: Far... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1829 - 176 Seiten
...seeketh his happiness apart from thee! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER II. " Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power* By doctrines fashioned...Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More skilled to raise the wretched, than to rise. To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 Seiten
...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 plice : Unpractised he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour : Far... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...pounds a year; Remote from towns, he ran bis godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to'change reasury of love: And if, in absence, I have disemployed A mite from the rich store ; if I have spent all the vagrant train ; He chid their wandering^, but relieved their pain. The long- remembered beggar... | |
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